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- Lind, Frida, 1975, et al.
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Exploring university-industry collaboration in research centres
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Ingår i: European Journal of Innovation Management. - : Emerald. - 1460-1060. ; 16:1, s. 70-91
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to explore university‐industry collaboration in research centres.Design/methodology/approachThe paper builds on an explorative study of three research centres at a technical university in Sweden, using in‐depth interviews. The three research centres, Alpha, Beta and Gamma, have various degrees of involvement with industry.FindingsA total of four broad forms of collaboration are suggested: distanced, translational, specified and developed collaboration.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper shows that the different institutional logics of academic actors, industry actors and funding agencies can be present in collaborations in (at least) four different ways resulting in four different types of research processes. Since not all actors are likely to be equally satisfied in all types of collaborations, the continued development of the research centres will be at risk.Practical implicationsIf the role of the research centre is to be a forum for collaboration, the research centre has to be a good mediator between the actors in order to ensure their satisfaction with the research centre within and between projects. If, in contrast, the role of the research centre is to be a facilitator of collaboration, the research centre needs to enable the actors to learn how to interact with each other in order for the distanced, translational, specified collaboration to evolve into developed collaboration.Originality/valueFew studies have focused on the collaborations per se in research centres, taking the different institutional logics of the actors involved in the collaboration into account.
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- Styhre, Alexander, 1971, et al.
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The softening bureaucracy: Accommodating new research opportunities in the entrepreneurial university
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0956-5221. ; 26:2, s. 107-120
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the growing literature on the entrepreneurial university, the divergent attitudes between industry and academy are often put forth as a major obstacle to more fruitful collaborations. This paper presents a study of a major Scandinavian technical university (referred to with the pseudonym UniTech), suggesting that the organization of such collaborations is perhaps a more substantial challenge for the entrepreneurial university. Drawing on a body of literature that addresses bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic organization forms, it is suggested that the entrepreneurial university could emerge as a soft bureaucracy, that is, a hybrid organization form comprising both bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic elements. While the soft bureaucracy organization form offers distinct opportunities, it also demands the sacrificing of some bureaucratic features such as full transparency and the predictability of operations. As a consequence, the entrepreneurial university needs to institute a number of mechanisms and procedures that structure and guide its day-to-day work, and nourish an attitude whereby a certain degree of ambiguity can be tolerated. (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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