Personal ties in university-industry linkages: a case-study from Argentina

Arza, Valeria; Carattoli, Mariela

doi:10.1007/s10961-016-9544-x

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“…In turn, academics-due to their dual, complex nature of employment as researchers at universities and as self-employed within U-I collaborations-may want to build strong ties characterised by high interaction frequency, and social proximity to create spaces of stability. In addition, stronger ties between the U-I collaboration partners might be more effective for generating substantial knowledge-related benefits, while weaker ties could be more suitable in service-provision partnerships for generating financial benefits on the part of research organisations (Arza and Carattoli 2017). It would be intriguing to analyse which type of social capital comes to the fore in U-I collaborations, why, and with what effects.…”

Section: The Individual In University-industry Collaborationsmentioning

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Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the literature on university–industry collaborations

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The substantial acknowledgement of university-industry (U-I) collaborations as promotor of economic progress, innovativeness and competitiveness fostered a continuous research engagement. At the same time, the U-I literature experienced a notable increase in the past decade, transforming into a multi-faceted and ambiguous research field, characterised by highly complex interlinks. The recent transformation hinders a comprehensive understanding of the latest developments in research directions and their clear delineation. Therefore, the purpose of this bibliometric literature review is to examine the evolution of the field and identify the primary emerging patterns. This paper employs co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling techniques to analyse the U-I publications dataset. The findings indicate that the U-I collaborations research can be systematically clustered, resulting in an interconnected ecosystem consisting of three levels: individual, organisational and institutional, respectively. Thus, this review presents the immense contribution that the analysis of U-I collaborations makes to various research streams. Building on these findings and employing qualitative content analysis on the clustered publications, the paper develops a research agenda that encourages future investigations of previously overlooked features of U-I collaborations in general, and their role across levels of analysis, contexts and stages of the collaboration process in particular.

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Section: The Individual In University-industry Collaborationsmentioning

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“…This special section values a comparative perspective and includes contributions based on different country cases, among which are several European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Norway and the UK) as well as Latin America and South Africa. For instance, the paper by Arza and Carattoli (2016) brings the key concept of social network ties (Granovetter 1973) into the personal characteristics that can affect different channels of U-I collaborations, in a late developing country such as Argentina. Measuring the strength of ties as a linear combination of friendship, trustworthiness, reciprocity of knowledge exchange and frequency of interaction, their evidence suggests that the strength of tie is associated with the probability of choosing different channels of interaction, and therefore conclude that the nature of personal relationship is relevant for the decision to commit time, knowledge and resources to long-term, demanding and risky interactions.…”

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University–industry linkages and academic engagements: individual behaviours and firms’ barriers. Introduction to the special section

Filippetti

Savona

2017

J Technol Transf

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The article introduces the special section on ''University-industry linkages and academic engagements: Individual behaviours and firms' barriers''. We first revisit the latest developments of the literature and policy interest on university-industry research. We then build upon the extant literature and unpack the concept of academic engagement by further exploring the heterogeneity of UI linkages along a set of dimensions and actors involved. These are: (1) Incentives and behaviours of individual academic entrepreneurs; (2) Firms' barriers to cooperation with public research institutions; (3) Individual behaviours, incentives and organizational bottlenecks in late developing countries. We summarize the individual contributions along these dimensions. There are overlooked individual characteristics that affect the degree of engagement of academics and scholars in cooperating with other organizations, of which gender and the nonacademic background of individuals are most crucial. The notion of academic engagement should be enlarged to aspects that go beyond the commercialization or patenting of innovation, but embrace social and economic impact more at large. From the perspective of the firm, barriers to innovation might exert an effect on the likelihood to cooperate with universities and public research institutes, most especially to cope with lack of finance or access to frontier knowledge. We finally propose a research agenda that addresses the challenges ahead.

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“…A study of Mexican researchers categorises researchers into three types, namely whether they are engaged in basic science, applied science, and technology development, and finds that academics performing in either technology development or basic science interact with industry more than those conducting applied research (De Fuentes and Dutrénit, 2012). Arza and Carattoli (2017) emphasise the importance of personal networks in academic engagement at an Argentinian university, and Kruss and Visser (2017) find that individuals' reputation may form a barrier to engagement in South Africa. Variations in research design and sample coverage mean that cross country comparison is difficult and there are no studies attempting systematic cross-national comparisons.…”

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“…learning about new areas and accessing new ideas) as an important motivation for collaboration. Arza and Carattoli (2017) To what degree do preexisting personal relationships shape academic engagement ("formation of knowledge linkages")?…”

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Academic Engagement: A Review of the Literature 2011-2019

Perkmann¹,

Salandra

Tartari

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SSRN Journal

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We provide a systematic review of the literature on academic engagement from 2011 onwards, which was the cutoff year of a previous review article published in Research Policy. Academic engagement refers to knowledge-related interactions of academic scientists with external organisations. It includes activities such as collaborative research with industry, contract research, consulting and informal ties. We consolidate what is known about the individual, organisational and institutional antecedents of academic engagement, and its consequences for research, commercialisation, and society at large. Our results suggest that individual characteristics associated with academic engagement include being scientifically productive, senior, male, locally trained, and commercially experienced. Academic engagement is also socially conditioned by peer effects and disciplinary characteristics. In terms of consequences, academic engagement is positively associated with academics' subsequent scientific productivity. We propose new areas of investigation where evidence remains inconclusive, including individual life cycle effects, the role of organisational contexts and incentives, cross-national comparisons, and the impact of academic engagement on the quality of subsequent research as well as the educational, commercial and society-wide impact.

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Personal ties in university-industry linkages: a case-study from Argentina

Cited by 41 publications

References 88 publications

Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the literature on university–industry collaborations

Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the literature on university–industry collaborations

University–industry linkages and academic engagements: individual behaviours and firms’ barriers. Introduction to the special section

Academic Engagement: A Review of the Literature 2011-2019

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