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University–industry linkages and academic engagements: individual behaviours and firms’ barriers. Introduction to the special section
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posted on 2023-06-21, 06:02 authored by Andrea Filippetti, Maria SavonaMaria SavonaThe 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 non-academic 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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ISIGrowth: Innovation-fuelled, Sustainable, Inclusive Growth; G1610; EUROPEAN UNION; 649186
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Journal of Technology TransferISSN
0892-9912Publisher
Springer VerlagExternal DOI
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4Volume
42Page range
719-729Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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2017-05-17First Open Access (FOA) Date
2017-05-17First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-05-17Usage metrics
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