Donationer till statliga lärosäten – Förslag till förenklingar och förtydliganden

Högskolesystemets kvalitet och förmåga att positionera sig i den internationella konkurrensen är avgörande för Sveriges tillväxt, välstånd och globala attraktionskraft. Kritik, bland annat av OECD, har dock riktats mot långsiktigheten i politiken, försvagning av tidigare starka forskningsmiljöer, oklara regelverk och otydliga ledningsstrukturer. Flera utredningar har konstaterat att ett sätt att stärka universiteten är en ökad grad av ekonomisk självständighet. Detta skulle kunna uppnås genom att förenkla hanteringen av donationer och att underlätta för lärosäten att själva bilda eller förvalta stiftelser. I Donationer till statliga lärosäten – Förslag till förenklingar och förtydliganden presenteras möjliga vägar och lösningar som förhållandevis enkelt och snabbt skulle kunna lösa nuvarande hinder och begränsningar i donationsprocessern

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Academic Entrepreneurship : Social norms, university culture and policies

Is a shift in intellectual property rights to universities the key instrument in increasing com-mercialization of publicly funded research? How much can actually be learned from the U.S. system, disregarding the ongoing debate as to whether the U.S. do actually outperform Europe in terms of commercializing university based research? Taking Sweden as a role model I claim that this policy will not work. This allegation stems from the analysis of a unique data-base giving individual university researchers view on participation in commercialization of public research, their commercialization experiences, and the obstacles researchers claim exist to increase academic entrepreneurship. Despite researchers positive attitudes towards engag-ing in commercial activities, the university culture, weak incentive structures and badly man-aged support facilities impede the creation of efficient links to markets. I conclude that meas-ures must be taken at primarily the national level, but also at the university level, to enhance commercialization activities.QC 2012020

On the role of knowledge capital in firm performance -Empirical evidence from Swedish firms in the engineering industry

[fre] La littérature en matière d'organisation industrielle s'est longtemps préoccupée de l'écart existant entre les hypothèses théoriques relatives à l'égalisation des profits entre les entreprises et le défaut de support empirique. Afin de lever cette contradiction, on définit un stock de connaissances à partir des investissements en R & D, marketing, logiciels et formations, qui est introduit dans le modèle comme facteur de production supplémentaire. Une base de données d'entreprises unique (IUI) est exploitée en vue de montrer que la distribution des taux de profits des entreprises est corrélée positivement avec ces investissements non matériels. [eng] The Industrial Organization literature has long been concerned about the discrepancy between the theoretical assumptions of equalization of profits among firms and the lack of empirical support. To sort out this contradiction, this paper defines a knowledge stock derived from investments in R & D, marketing, software and education which is modeled as an additional production factor. A unique IUI firm data set is used to demonstrate that the distribution of profitability among firms varies positively with investments in such knowledge capital.

Academic Entrepreneurship : Social norms, university culture and policies

Is a shift in intellectual property rights to universities the key instrument in increasing com-mercialization of publicly funded research? How much can actually be learned from the U.S. system, disregarding the ongoing debate as to whether the U.S. do actually outperform Europe in terms of commercializing university based research? Taking Sweden as a role model I claim that this policy will not work. This allegation stems from the analysis of a unique data-base giving individual university researchers view on participation in commercialization of public research, their commercialization experiences, and the obstacles researchers claim exist to increase academic entrepreneurship. Despite researchers positive attitudes towards engag-ing in commercial activities, the university culture, weak incentive structures and badly man-aged support facilities impede the creation of efficient links to markets. I conclude that meas-ures must be taken at primarily the national level, but also at the university level, to enhance commercialization activities.QC 2012020