The effects of non-academic work experience on external interaction and research performance

Gulbrandsen, Magnus; Thune, Taran

doi:10.1007/s10961-017-9556-1

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“…Also, science-based disciplines such as chemistry, behave differently from other disciplines in the exchanges between academia and industry (Hanel and St-Pierre 2006;Meyer-Krahmer and Schmoch 1998). By contrast, very little attention has been devoted to collaboration between university and industry in the humanities-related fields (see Gulbrandsen and Thune 2017). Importantly, differences among scientific disciplines have started to be taken into account also to inform policy (Gerbin and Drnovsek 2016;Gulbrandsen et al 2011).…”

Section: New Trends and Policy Interest In University-industry Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is surely a line of research that would deserve more attention in the future, as we argue in the next section. Gulbrandsen and Thune (2017) look at further, under-explored individual academics' characteristics in Norway: non-academic work experience. Recently, advice to policy makers has been recommending the recruitment of more academic personnel with nonacademic work experiences to exploit their previous networks to establish contacts with the industry.…”

Section: Individual Characteristics Proximities and Academic Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: New Trends and Policy Interest In University-industry Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Individual Characteristics Proximities and Academic Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…This suggests founding a firm may compete with industry collaboration. Conversely, Abreu and Grinevich (2013), for a wider set of disciplines in the UK, find that both having owned a small company and having worked in the public or third sector are positively associated with subsequent engagement; previous experience in the public and not-for-profit sectors has the same effect in the UK and Norway (Gulbrandsen and Thune, 2017).…”

Section: Individual Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Academic Engagement: A Review of the Literature 2011-2019

Perkmann¹,

Salandra

Tartari

et al. 2019

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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“…Finally, academic engagement often leads to improved collaborative behaviour [30]. Moreover, non-academic work experience positively influences external interaction activities among academics [31].…”

Section: Uic Performance Explainedmentioning

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A Review and Comprehensive Analysis of the Performance of University – Construction Industry Collaboration

2021

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University–construction industry collaboration (UIC) has become an essential part of driving innovation and fostering construction industry growth. Measuring the performance of such collaboration is an emergent field of study that is scattered through the current literature. This study aims to identify the UIC performance indicators advocated by the top-cited references, and map UIC performance indicators in the context of the state of Qatar. The present research evaluated the literature related to measuring the performance of UIC, considering publications in selected scientific databases over the period of 2004 – 2020. The publications were obtained through a search of the Science Direct, Emerald Insight, Scopus, Web of Science, Springer Link, SAGE, Research Gate, and Taylor & Francis Online databases. Keywords used in searching for publications included university, construction industry, business, cooperation, collaboration, relation, performance, and measurement. The findings were discussed and confirmed in the context of Qatar’s education and innovation ecosystem through semi-structured interviews with two renowned scholars who are involved in UIC. The study revealed that both universities and the construction industry are increasingly focused on measuring the performance of collaboration through specific performance indicators. The results show that both universities and the construction industry share some interests when it comes to four key performance indicators. These performance indicators are (1) the number of registered patents, (2) the number of patent applications, (3) the number of innovations (process/marketing/product/organisational), and (4) the number of publications. This study contributes to a general understanding of measuring UIC performance and defining trends in this research field. It also highlights research limitations and provides an arena for future research in the field. Doi: 10.28991/cej-2021-03091688 Full Text: PDF

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The effects of non-academic work experience on external interaction and research performance

Cited by 43 publications

References 23 publications

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

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

A Review and Comprehensive Analysis of the Performance of University – Construction Industry Collaboration

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