Proximity across the distant worlds of university–industry collaborations

Alpaydın, Utku Ali Rıza; Fitjar, Rune Dahl

doi:10.1111/pirs.12586

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“…We have started exploring this map by focusing on geography. Still, we know that other dimensions may prove essential (Basile et al, 2012; Boschma, 2005; Paci et al, 2014), especially for the collaborations between universities and industry (Alpaydin & Fitjar, 2021), since spillovers may travel through many channels, such as student and researchers' mobility or collaborative networks within cognitive communities.…”

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Direct and indirect effects of universities on European regional productivity

Marrocu

Paci

Usaï

2022

Papers in Regional Science

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Universities are fundamental in driving economic performance as they generate human capital, research and knowledge diffusion. We propose a novel analysis by investigating their effects on European regions' total factor productivity (TFP) over the period 2000–2016. We distinguish between direct effects, due to universities societal role (“third mission”), and indirect ones originating from human and technological capital creation. Our contribution is threefold. First and foremost, we provide evidence that the presence of universities has a sizeable impact on regional TFP. Second, this impact spreads across regional boundaries. Third, universities effectively drive human and technological capital growth, thus indirectly fostering productivity enhancements.

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Direct and indirect effects of universities on European regional productivity

Marrocu

Paci

Usaï

2022

Papers in Regional Science

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“…Hence, there are no existing instruments on which to build such an analysis. However, an emerging literature has used survey data to examine how actors perceive their relationship with partners (Alpaydın & Fitjar, 2020; Fitjar et al., 2016). Building on this literature, we apply a similar approach to examine actors' perceptions of the proximity benefits of the collaboration with their most important university partner.…”

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How do university‐industry collaborations benefit innovation? Direct and indirect outcomes of different collaboration types

Alpaydın,

Fitjar

2024

Growth and Change

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This paper explores the extent to which firms perceive to benefit from university‐industry collaborations in their innovation processes, building on survey data from 232 Norwegian firms. We find that firms experience not only direct innovation benefits from collaborations, but also indirect benefits in the form of closer proximity to universities, which can in turn improve future collaboration. We compare the reported outputs from various types of collaboration, finding that firms engaging mainly in research‐oriented interactions more often report that collaborations result in innovation than those engaging in education‐oriented or more informal collaborations. However, education‐oriented and informal collaborations are equally important for building cognitive, organizational, institutional and social proximities between firms and universities.

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“…In March 2021, he completed his PhD with research on University-Industry Collaborations (UICs). In this research, he investigates how proximity, being a multidimensional concept -including geographical and a variety of non-geographical dimensions such as cognitive, organisational, institutional and social -plays a bridging role between the two worlds of academia and industry and facilitates the formation of universityindustry linkages (Alpaydin, 2021;Alpaydın, 2019;Alpaydın & Fitjar, 2021). His results illustrate that UICs motivated by the need for capacity development and relying on cognitive proximity are less sensitive to distance, while geographical proximity matter more for firms intending to create societal impact and build their collaboration on institutional and social proximity.…”

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Social innovation-as-practice: establishing a social innovation program at a university

Svennevik

Saidi

2022

Management &Amp; Marketing

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Creating a culture for social innovation in universities can involve formalising and internalising processes that aim to support efforts towards using research results in society. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion on how the present higher education institution system promotes work with social innovation. The paper presents lessons from efforts to establish a (social) innovation programme in a university. The data used for this qualitative case study are board documents, motivation letters, evaluation forms, reports from working groups and a workshop with a survey. The paper approaches two research questions: (1) How can a (social) innovation programme operate within a university’s existing managerial, financial and social structures to facilitate researchers’ work with social innovations? (2) How can a (social) innovation programme that facilitates researchers’ work with social innovation at a university contribute to building a physical, intellectual, managerial, and logistic environment that can create a culture for innovation? With the first research question, the paper maps work on the pilot projects with initial motivations, early engagements in the programme, and future participation expectations. This connects to how the programme operates within the university’s existing structures. The second research question shows the implications of this work, looking at how the innovation programme contributes to creating a culture for social innovation at the university. The results show how the programme can contribute to a) support researchers in their own work by further developing their research results into actions of societal usefulness and b) establish an arena that can contribute to creating a culture for working with social innovation within the university. How this can be conceptualised as ‘social innovation-as-practice’ is then discussed. Based on the findings, suggestions about how the present system can be improved are offered.

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Proximity across the distant worlds of university–industry collaborations

Cited by 21 publications

References 71 publications

Direct and indirect effects of universities on European regional productivity

Direct and indirect effects of universities on European regional productivity

How do university‐industry collaborations benefit innovation? Direct and indirect outcomes of different collaboration types

Social innovation-as-practice: establishing a social innovation program at a university

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