The relationship between interdisciplinarity and distinct modes of university-industry interaction

D’Este, Pablo; Llopis, Óscar; Rentocchini, Francesco; Yegros-Yegros, Alfredo

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2019.05.008

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“…In particular, the most common forms of small firm support in Indonesia include training (22.9%), capital assistance (17.3%), facilities (16.1%), and dissemination or the introduction of new technologies and methods (15.2%) (Tambunan 2008 ). Meanwhile, in the context of the HEIs-SMEs relationship, knowledge and technology transfer are the critical method of collaboration (e.g., Formica 2005 ; D’Este et al 2019 ). Nevertheless, not all external support types effectively improve SMEs’ business performance.…”

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“…Most studies discussed the effectiveness of practices that partially increase SME performance. For example, knowledge and technology transfer plays a critical role in university-industry collaboration (UIC) (e.g., Formica 2005 ; D’Este et al 2019 ). Visitation, risk training and assessment, and business assistance methods effectively helped more than 700 small business operators in Australia (Breen and Seers 2002 ).…”

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Embedding Design Thinking Paradigm in a University’s Business Assistance to Small Business

Suci

Maryanti

Hardi

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Syst Pract Action Res

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Interest gaps exist between the university and the small firms when running a business assistance program, leading to the importance of practical guidance that could accommodate both partners’ interests. However, there is relatively little literature about how the university team should implement business assistance to a small partnering firm. Accordingly, this research used three stages and a mixed-method approach to solve the problem, involving qualitative and quantitative techniques and action research. This study introduced PROSEM, an acronym for problem rooting, solution treatment, and measurement, to guide university business assistance to small firms by adopting the design thinking paradigm. The results revealed a significant impact on the SME’s business performance. The PROSEM process further proved that a measurable and well-planned treatment based on the root causes could increase revenue and production volume and reduce the returned product rate. At the same time, this study enriches researchers’ knowledge and skills in developing the concept and guidelines of a systematic problem-solving method using unique, real cases in the small business community. As such, the PROSEM affirms that design thinking is an open and adjustable concept which can be embedded and modified in various problem-solving procedures.

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Embedding Design Thinking Paradigm in a University’s Business Assistance to Small Business

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“…A third set of articles explores the interdependencies between academic engagement and other activities in an academic's portfolio, particularly research. Academics with more publications are more likely to engage (Aschhoff and Grimpe, 2014;D'Este et al, 2019;Ding and Choi, 2011;Tartari et al, 2014) but the effect of academics' research quality (usually measured by the quality of their publications) is more ambiguous (Ding and Choi, 2011;Tartari et al, 2014;Zi and Blind, 2015). As for further research and portfolio-related determinants, academics' tendency to publish in applied journals has a positive effect on their propensity to collaborate with industry in the Italian context (Tartari and Breschi, 2012).…”

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“…Further research for the US points out that engagement with industry is correlated with an academic's breadth of academic collaborations (Libaers, 2014), and in the UK with their interdisciplinarity (D'Este et al, 2019). Interdisciplinarity is more strongly associated with academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer, compared to research partnerships, and contracts and consulting (D'Este et al, 2019).…”

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Academic Engagement: A Review of the Literature 2011-2019

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Salandra

Tartari

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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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“…Academic entrepreneurship in the form of research-based USOs is increasingly attracting the attention of academics, practitioners, and policy-makers (Belitski et al 2019;Bock et al 2017;D'Este et al 2019;François and Philippart 2019). Prior studies have identified a variety of resources relevant to USOs' entrepreneurial actions and thereby the exploration and exploitation of academic entrepreneurial opportunities, including financial, human, organisational, social, routine-based, and technological resources (Gümüsay and Bohné 2018).…”

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Towards an integrated understanding of university research commercialisation: a university spin-off perspective

Skute¹

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To study the impact of the early-stage USO characteristics on the likelihood to acquire funding and survive on the market (Chapter 4), and delineate different USO types based on self-perceived first-and second-order competences using unsupervised text mining techniques (Chapter 5), this dissertation uses a unique dataset from a Valorisation Grant (VG) programme managed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO; Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) and previously Technology Foundation STW. NWO "ensures quality and innovation in science and facilitates its impact on society. Its main task is to fund scientific research at public research institutions in the Netherlands, especially universities. NWO focuses on all scientific disciplines and fields of research. The funds are allocated by means of a national competition on the basis of quality and independent assessment and selection procedures. NWO plays several roles as a broad, national research organisation that actively contributes to various elements of national science and innovation policy" (NWO 2020). Considering that NWO' funding instruments are primarily sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and to some degree by other government ministries (e.g. Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment), NWO aims to provide funding to the best scientific talents and the best research proposals through competition (NWO 2020). In line with the recent literature arguing about the increasing importance of university spin-offs as technology and knowledge transfer mechanisms with a potential to create new economic and societal impact (see, e.g. Bock et al. 2017; François and Philippart 2019; Muscio et al. 2016), NWO recognises the need to provide financial support to leverage the initial venturing stages of academic entrepreneurs. Through the VG programme, NWO seeks to minimise the gap between pre-organisation phase of USOs and the credibility threshold that enables USOs to signal external investors and venture capitalists about their readiness to CHAPTER 2: Mapping the field: A bibliometric analysis of the literature on university-industry collaborations This chapter is published as Skute, I., Zalewska-Kurek, K., Hatak, I., & de Weerd-Nederhof, P. (2019). Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the literature on university-industry collaborations.

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The relationship between interdisciplinarity and distinct modes of university-industry interaction

Cited by 59 publications

References 89 publications

Embedding Design Thinking Paradigm in a University’s Business Assistance to Small Business

Embedding Design Thinking Paradigm in a University’s Business Assistance to Small Business

Academic Engagement: A Review of the Literature 2011-2019

Towards an integrated understanding of university research commercialisation: a university spin-off perspective

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