University-Industry Collaboration on Technological Innovation: An Assessment of Outcomes

大学与企业在技术创新方面的合作：成果评估

• 批准号: 9625826
• 负责人: Yong Lee
• 金额: $ 6.91万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-06-15 至 1999-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9625826&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: University; Industry; Collaboration; Technological; Innovation

The last decade has seen significant growth in university-industry collaboration in knowledge and technology transfer. The purpose of this research is to document the extent to which universities and industry mutually benefit from their research and transfer collaboration, and at what possible costs. The investigation assumes that the collaboration is fundamentally a `two-way` street where the decision for collaboration is a balancing act for the parties. The future of collaboration as public policy therefore depends on how it benefits both sectors. Under examination is the hypothesis that, while there are substantial benefits, actual or perceived, to both, the nature and extent of benefits vary in accordance with the type of collaborative activities (nature of technologies or projects), organizational characteristics (e.g., firm size), interaction mechanisms, and the characteristics of the interacting individuals. The study design focuses on the interacting population or `interaction sets` as a basic unit of analysis. It uses mailed survey questionnaires, telephone interviews, and selected site visits. The sample is a three-stage sequential strategy -- a pre-survey questionnaire to academic department chairs from whom to identify faculty collaborators, moving to a selection of faculty collaborators, and finally selecting their industrial partners. Faculty collaborators are sought from biology, chemistry, chemical engineering, computer science, materials science and engineering, and mechanical engineering. Interim and final results of the study will be presented at appropriate conferences and submitted for publication. Upon request, the data will also be made available to other researchers for further analysis and classroom instruction.

过去十年，大学与产业在知识和技术转让方面的合作有了显著增长。 这项研究的目的是记录大学和工业界在多大程度上从他们的研究和转让合作中受益，以及可能的成本。 调查假设，合作基本上是一条“双向”道路，合作的决定是各方的平衡行为。 因此，作为公共政策的合作的未来取决于它如何使两个部门受益。 正在审查的假设是，虽然有实质性的好处，实际或感知，双方，性质和程度的好处根据不同的合作活动的类型（技术或项目的性质），组织特点（例如，公司规模），相互作用机制，以及相互作用的个人的特征。 研究设计的重点是相互作用的人口或“互动集”作为一个基本的分析单位。 它采用邮寄调查问卷，电话采访，并选择现场访问。 样本是一个三阶段的顺序策略-一个预调查问卷，以学术部门的椅子，从他们确定教师合作者，移动到教师合作者的选择，最后选择他们的工业合作伙伴。 学院合作者寻求从生物学，化学，化学工程，计算机科学，材料科学与工程，机械工程。 研究的中期和最终结果将在适当的会议上公布，并提交出版。 根据要求，这些数据也将提供给其他研究人员，以供进一步分析和课堂教学。