Knowledge and technology transfer barriers - Polish universities perspectives

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to identify the barriers to the knowledge transfer and university research commercialization system in Poland on the basis of qualitative research of the 20 biggest Polish universities. The research revealed that there are three main groups of barriers referring to macro environment, university system and human factors. The results could help Polish government and universities to support effective processes of scientific research commercialization, build knowledge and competence in the Polish scientific and research centers. The article is the comparison analysis which can be taken into consideration by university managers in transforming economies 1 .

Determinanty współpracy nauki i biznesu w branży farmaceutycznej – case study

“…The analysis of the results of the conducted research allowed to indicate a number of factors facilitating cooperation, also in a longer time perspective. The research results are confirmed by reports from the subject literature (Trzmielak and Grzegorczyk, 2014;Gwarda-Gruszczy ska, 2013).…”

“…The implementation of new solutions from the research to the commercial sector is not an easy process and requires the fulfillment of a number of conditions (Trzmielak and Grzegorczyk, 2014;Wu, Welch and Huang, 2015). The analysis of the literature on the subject allows to classify these factors as external (i.e.…”

“…However, internal factors that depend on participants in the commercialization process play an important role in this process. These include the organizational culture of the company and research institution, the image of the company, the competitiveness of the offer and access to experts (Trzmielak and Grzegorczyk, 2014). The organizational culture of a given university and faculty, including business approach to building relations with companies and the competences of specialized entities responsible for commercialization, so-called organizational importance, is of crucial importance for initiating and implementing this type of cooperation, i.e.…”