1. the gooduep project: findings eair forum, vilnius, august 2009 paul temple centre for higher...
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the GOODUEP project:findings
EAIR Forum, Vilnius, August 2009
Paul Temple
Centre forHigher Education Studies
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the GOODUEP project
Project co-funded by the European Commission, DG/EAC
Objectives of the project: To map university/enterprise partnerships (UEPs) in 18 universities
in 6 European countries To analyse structures and governance of UEPs To identify success factors and examples of good practice
What kind of UEPs? All types of higher education institutions All type of business (public or private sector) All type of partnerships (high-level labs to sports facilities)
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levels of analysis
1 National level 6 countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, UK Desk research:
2 Institutional level 18 universities Empirical research
3 Partnership level 10 selected cases of good practices In-depth empirical research
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different national contexts: % of GDP spent on R&D, by source
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Source: OECD, Main Science and Technology Indicators, 2007
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Pat
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EPO patents 311,7 244,3 121,4 128 87,3 30,6 4,2
USPTO patents 129,8 84,2 50,6 52,2 30,8 6,5 0,6
Triad patents 53,8 47,4 15,8 20,8 8,3 2,7 0,2
DE NL UK EU IT ES PL
…which produce different outcomes
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provisional conclusions
• an enormous diversity of UEPs across Europe: an increasingly important university activity everywhere
• different approaches reflect contexts and policies (national, regional, institutional)
• key role of institutional governance: where very closely regulated, “shortcuts” in managing UEPs are apparent
• funding: financial incentives for the institution, financial or non-financial incentives for staff
• people: academic entrepreneurs, networks
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“embeddedness”
Mode 1
weak strong extent of organisational embeddedness
nature of knowledge transfer
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some policy implications
• create institutional processes which allow departments to embed the knowledge benefits of UEPs
• allow individuals to derive financial/other benefits from working on UEPs
• this may involve legal changes to facilitate UEP formation
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thank you for listening:
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