University-industry Knowledge Transfer: A Comparison of Business Schools and their Interactions with Industry in Developed and Developing Countries

本研究项目旨在发现发达国家和发展中国家商学院、大学与产业合作的主要区别。可以说，“来自政府和行业的压力越来越大，要求更积极地参与创新过程，这导致了大学和行业之间更紧密的联系”（Dooley和Kirk， 2007年第330页）。这一领域的研究很重要，很大程度上是因为对校企合作知识的增加可以“让政策制定者更好地判断合作类型、个人概况、组织专长和大学的优缺点”（Perkmann et al.， 2013年第431页）。对发达国家商学院与发展中国家商学院在校企合作中遇到的差异进行研究，可能会取得丰硕成果。这可能是有用的，因为它可以深入了解如何在发展中国家改善大学-产业合作（Attia, 2015）。此外，关于学术创业和大学技术转让，有人认为“需要进一步的研究来检验商学院参与与大学技术转让相关的创业发展的程度和性质”（Wright et al.， 2004年第243页）。该研究项目旨在衡量众多变量，从商学院学者与校企合作组织合作的媒介，到参与商学院校企合作的动机，重点关注发达国家和发展中国家。本研究项目将采用混合方法的研究设计，收集定量和定性数据。

This research project aims to discover the key differences between business school university-industry collaborations in developed and developing countries. It can be argued that there is "increased pressure from government and industry to engage more actively in the innovation process, which is resulting in closer linkages between universities and industry" (Dooley and Kirk, 2007 p. 330). Research in this area is important, largely because an increase in knowledge about university-industry collaboration can "allow policy-makers to reach better judgements of the strengths and weaknesses of types of collaboration, profiles of individuals, organisational specialism and universities" (Perkmann et al., 2013 p. 431). A study into the differences business schools encounter in university-industry collaborations between business schools in developed countries and business schools developing countries could be fruitful. This may be useful is because it could give insight into how university-industry collaboration could be improved in developing countries (Attia, 2015). Furthermore, with respect to academic entrepreneurship and university technology transfer, it has been argued that "further research is required to examine the extent and nature of business schools' involvement in the development of entrepreneurship related to the transfer of technology in universities" (Wright et al., 2004 p. 243). This research project aims to measure numerous variables, from the medium through which business school academics cooperate with organisations within university-industry collaboration to the motivation to engage in business school university-industry collaboration, focusing on developed and developing countries. This research project will adopt a mixed-methods research design, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data.