Crossing the Rubicon: Exploring the Factors that Shape Academics Perceptions of the Barriers to Working with Industry
Crossing the Rubicon: Exploring the Factors that Shape Academics Perceptions of the Barriers to Working with Industry
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10.1093/cje/bes007
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2012-04
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Valentina Tartari;A. Salter;P. D’Este
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作者：
Valentina Tartari;A. Salter;P. D’Este
尽管学者们面临着越来越大的压力，要求他们让业界参与他们的研究，但他们往往发现很难做到这一点。在披露时间和主题选择上与行业发生冲突是很常见的。此外，与产业界的合作可能需要学术界就知识产权所有权的正式合同进行谈判。为了帮助理解可能缓解这些冲突的因素，本文考察了学者的专业和协作经验如何形成他们对行业合作障碍的看法。使用丰富的英国学者数据集，我们发现，对于具有行业和合作经验的学者以及那些信任他们的行业合作伙伴的人来说，他们感知到的合作障碍较低。然而，对于行业参与的交易成本，我们发现创业经验和用于与行业合作的方法的多样性增加了合作的感知障碍。
Although academics are under increasing pressure to engage industry in their research, they often find it difficult to do so. Conflicts with industry over the timing of disclosure and the choice of topics are common. Moreover, collaborations with industry may require academics to negotiate formal contracts about the ownership of intellectual property. To help understand the factors that might mitigate these conflicts, this paper examines how the professional and collaborative experiences of academics shape their perceptions of the barriers to industry collaboration. Using a rich dataset of UK academics, we find that perceived barriers to collaboration are lower for academics with industrial and collaborative experience and for those who trust their industry partners. However, for the transactional costs of industry engagement, we find entrepreneurial experience and the diversity of methods used to collaborate with industry increases the perceived barriers to collaboration.