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University-Industry Research Partnerships : A research exploring the dynamics of university-industry interaction within mutual research projects
Janßen, B.A. (2016) University-Industry Research Partnerships : A research exploring the dynamics of university-industry interaction within mutual research projects.
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| Abstract: | University-industry research collaborations become increasingly important in contemporary sustained university life, but the current literature lacks the consideration of a wider scope and the inclusion of distinguishable motives or objective pursuances within strategic partnerships that are dynamic in time and place. In order to understand these dynamics, postdoc researchers as well as doctoral candidates who are engaged in PhD projects that are executed in collaboration with organizations were interviewed in semi-structured interviews. This paper sheds light on the strategic behavior of researchers within university-industry research partnerships and provides the reader with a framework that supports value capture by identifying the predominant motives for engaging in such a collaboration as well as the exercised influence of organizations on the research direction, conduct, and publication together with the reaction of researchers to it. Results indicated that researchers possess high autonomy when setting research directions but are still dependent on the resources provided by the organization and its environment. Although organizations value the researcher`s competencies and its conceptual and abstract thinking for problems for which the organization is not able to easily solve it internally, the organization limits the researcher`s autonomy to a certain extent when it comes to the research conduct, which itself can be intended by the organization or simply due to feasibility reasons. Nonetheless, researchers are generally free in their choice for engaging in a mutual research project and are therefore in a more comfortable negotiation position and can act with foresight on what is demanded from them. As main conclusion one can state that the more transparent and coordinated the planning of the mutual research project, the more resource-saving (efficient) and successful (effective) the research project will be. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | Business Administration MSc (60644) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/70698 |
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