University-Industry Knowledge Interactions - People, Tensions and Impact

University-industry interaction combines several layers of actors, states and effects. People make choices, based on their individual characteristics, at different stages of a scientific career, in a highly internationalised profession. Tensions arise when university administrators and managers need to strike a balance among different promotion instruments, or when the university or public research organisation tries to solve the trade-offs between long- and short-term relationships, or among new management practices. Impacts are related to scientific agendas, the economic returns for firms or the societal benefits. This book adopts a people-tension-impact approach to identify key insights, by combining qualitative and quantitative research, established and novel methodologies, and different geographic settings. The chapters in this volume provide new perspectives on university-industry interactions related to gender biases, entrepreneurial involvement of PhD students and the role of international mobility. They also focus on how the positive impacts of university-industry interactions coexist with unresolved tensions linked to policy combinations, long-term contractual relationships, management practices and organisational strategies.

Chapters 4 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

List of contents

1. Introduction: People, tensions and impact in university interactions.- 2. PhDs with industry partners - assessing collaboration and topic distribution using a text mining methodology.- 3. The heterogeneous impact of academic patent characteristics on firms' economic performance.- 4. Rethinking the role of productive interactions in explaining SSH research societal impacts: towards a conceptual framework for productive science system dynamics.- 5. The policy mix to promote university-industry knowledge transfer: a conceptual framework.- 6. Determinants of contract renewals in university-industry contract research: going my way, or good Sam?-7. The relationship between university management practices and the growth of academic spin-offs.- 8.Public research organizations and technology transfer: flexibility, spatial organization and specialization of research units.- 9. Every woman is a vessel: an exploratory study on gender and academic entrepreneurship in a nascent technology transfer system.- 10. The effects of the academic environment on PhD entrepreneurship: new insights from survey data.-11. International academic mobility and entrepreneurial opportunity identification: a resource-based view.

About the author

¿Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro is tenured scientist at INGENIO (CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València). He develops research in science, technology and innovation studies. His topics are university-industry interaction, academic patenting, knowledge diffusion, the psychology of researchers and the relationships between art and knowledge transfer.

David Barberá-Tomás is Associate Professor in the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), associated to INGENIO (CSIC-UPV). His academic research studies different areas of innovation, such as medical innovation, innovation policy, innovation in creative sectors, or innovation and social entrepreneurship.

Pablo D'Este is a Senior Research Fellow at INGENIO (CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València). He conducts research in the field of innovation studies covering topics such as university-business interactions and their impact on academic and business performance, academic entrepreneurship, knowledge networks and innovation, and medical innovation.

 

Product details

Assisted by	Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro (Editor), David Barberá-Tomás (Editor), Pablo D'Este (Editor)
Publisher	Springer, Berlin
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	24.02.2023
EAN	9783030846718
ISBN	978-3-0-3084671-8
No. of pages	216
Dimensions	155 mm x 12 mm x 235 mm
Illustrations	VIII, 216 p. 14 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Series	International Studies in Entrepreneurship
Subject	Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management

Product details

• Assisted by: Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro (Editor), David Barberá-Tomás (Editor), Pablo D'Este (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.2023
• EAN: 9783030846718
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3084671-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 12 mm x 235 mm
• Illustrations: VIII, 216 p. 14 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management