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- Berg, Karin, 1985, et al.
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Exploring industrial PhD students and perceptions of their impact on firm innovation
- 2020
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Ingår i: Bernhard, I. Gråsjö, U. & Karlsson, C. Diversity, Innovation and Clusters. Spatial Perspectives. - Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishers. - 9781789902570
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter explores industrial PhD students, including their activities and their perceptions of the impact of their studies and of their role in university–firm interaction on firm innovation. The limited number of previous studies of industrial PhD students mainly focus on broader issues related to these students’ educational experience and learning outcomes (Thune 2009), whereas studies of PhD students moving to industry generally focus not on their activities during education but rather on what happens after graduation (e.g., Cruz-Castro & Sanz-Menéndez 2005; Garcia-Quevedo et al. 2011; Roach & Sauermann 2010). Here, we consider a specific empirical phenomenon, namely, industrial PhD students during their education, when they are simultaneously involved in both the university and the firm. Because little research considers our phenomenon, we address two questions through detailed qualitative research, within the empirical context of collaborative research in the field of engineering in Sweden. Given the lack of previous research on this topic, our first question is, How to define an industrial PhD student? To answer this, we consider the conditions for education and employment, their specific activities, and the frequency of activities bridging the university and firm. Then we seek to explore their perceived contribution to firm innovation during their education as PhD students, so our second question is What is the perception of how their activities impact upon firm innovation? To conceptualize this, we first present an existing conceptual framework for academic engagement with industry, and further elaborating on underlying concepts in order to develop a detailed analysis of the the micro-level activities of these PhD students. Our results identify several activities of these industrial PhD students that merit analysis in future research, and specifically in relation to the development of firm capabilities for innovation.
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- Berg, Karin, 1985, et al.
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Graduate Students as Boundary Spanners: How Academic Engagement can influence Firm Innovation
- 2020
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Ingår i: Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings. Volym 2020:1. - : Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings. - 2151-6561.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper contributes to literature on “academic engagement with industry”, by exploring graduate students as boundary spanners between firms and universities. As contrasted with studies of commercialization of scientific results through patents and start-up firms, literature on academic engagement focuses on how faculty members and students engage in knowledge-related interactions with external organizations. Extant literature has focused more on universities and less on firms. We conceptualize graduate students as holding a boundary spanning position between the firm and university, focusing empirically upon firm employed PhD students in engineering. More specifically, we investigate how their activities constitute a form of academic engagement, in order to further understand their influence on the firms’ absorptive capacity. We revise an existing conceptual framework and further develop the notion that there are two pathways – e.g. a direct and an indirect pathway – by which collaborative research may impact innovation outcomes within firms. When doing so, we specify how graduate student activities mainly support the development of firm capabilities for early stages in the innovation process, specifically recognizing the value and, to some extent, assimilating new external knowledge. We conclude with two propositions about how boundary spanner activities can be conceptualized as organizational routines underlying search capabilities
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- Berg, Karin, 1985, et al.
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How Academic Engagement Through Graduate Students Can Affect Firms’ Search Capabilities for Innovation: A Micro-level Analysis of Firm Employed PhD Students in Engineering
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Ingår i: DRUID 2019 Conference proceedings. - Copenhagen, Denmark : DRUID Society.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper contributes to the recent stream of literature developing the concept of “academic engagement with industry”, which focuses not on commercialization but on the knowledge networks between university and industry. We do so by exploring the firm side of such interactions, and empirically conduct a study of how firm employed PhD students do micro-level activities, which in turn help develop knowledge networks. A firm employed PhD student is a person who is enrolled at the university as a PhD student while at the same time being employed at the firm. We extend an existing conceptual framework, which suggests that there are two pathways whereby collaborative research between university and industry may impact innovation outcomes within firms. We find that microlevel activities develop and support the indirect pathways of academic engagement, and propose this may be conceptualized as organizational routines underlying search capabilities
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- Berg, Karin, 1985, et al.
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Researching together in academic engagement in engineering: a study of dual affiliated graduate students in Sweden
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Ingår i: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT. - 0267-5730 .- 1741-5276. ; 96:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores dual affiliated graduate students that conduct research involving both universities and firms, which we conceptualise as a form of academic engagement, e.g., knowledge networks. We explore what they do during their studies, and their perceptions about their contributions to the firm's capacities for technology and innovation. So far, university-industry interactions in engineering are less researched than other fields, and this qualitative study focuses upon one department of Electrical Engineering in Sweden. First, we define and describe how the partner firms and universities organise this research collaboration as a form of academic engagement. Secondly, we propose a conceptual framework specifying how graduate students act as boundary-spanners between universities and firms. This framework is used for the empirical analysis, when exploring their perceptions of impact. Our results reveal that they primarily engage in problem-solving activities in technology, which augment particularly the early stages of absorptive capacities in firms.
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