Edquist C.

Gibbons M.

Krimsky S.

Lambert R.

Mendoza P.

Merton R.K.

Vest C.M.

English

 This paper examines the educational implications of research collaboration between university and industry for the research training of doctoral students. It is concerned with the issues of how research training is constructed in such collaborations and what might be the effects of collaboration on doctoral students' learning. The study adopts a knowledge perspective. Three different dispositions of knowledge are identified: ‘expert’, ‘utilitarian’ and ‘commercialized’. Doctoral students' experiences were examined in relation to two aspects of research training – industrial involvement in supervision and academic freedom – in university–industry collaboration in the field of life sciences. Thirty-five in-depth interviews were carried out at BioCity Turku in Finland with 16 doctoral students, 14 of their supervisors and 5 PhD graduates. Four major types of PhD research collaboration were discovered, characterized as ‘Financial’, ‘Interactive’, ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Appendant’. The significance of each type is discussed in relation to different knowledge dispositions. Drawing on the research findings, suggestions are offered for constructing successful research training programmes through university–industry collaboration. </jats:p

Kuang-Hsu Chiang

Crossref

Industry and Higher Education

A Typology of Research Training in University—Industry Collaboration

This paper examines the educational implications of research collaboration between university and industry for the research training of doctoral students. It is concerned with the issues of how research training is constructed in such collaborations and what might be the effects of collaboration on doctoral students' learning. The study adopts a knowledge perspective. Three different dispositions of knowledge are identified: 'expert', 'utilitarian' and 'commercialized'. Doctoral students' experiences were examined in relation to two aspects of research training - industrial involvement in supervision and academic freedom - in university-industry collaboration in the field of life sciences. Thirty-five in-depth interviews were carried out at BioCity Turku in Finland with 16 doctoral students, 14 of their supervisors and 5 PhD graduates. Four major types of PhD research collaboration were discovered, characterized as 'Financial', 'Interactive', 'Kangaroo' and 'Appendant'. The significance of each type is discussed in relation to different knowledge dispositions. Drawing on the research findings, suggestions are offered for constructing successful research training programmes through university-industry collaboration

Chiang, Iris

Edinburgh Research Explorer

Academic capitalism and academic culture: a case study’,

Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State and Higher Education, Johns Hopkins

Academic–corporate ties in biotechnology: a quantitative study’,

Academic–industrial relationships in the life sciences’, The New England

Assessing faculty ﬁnancial relationships with industry: a case study’,

Attitudes of academic and clinical researchers toward ﬁnancial ties in research: a systematic review’,

Building bridges between university and industry: theory and practice’,

Capitalizing on knowledge from public research institutions: indications from new technology-based ﬁrms

Commercializing knowledge: university science, knowledge capture and ﬁrm performance in biotechnology’,

Conﬂicts of interest: conceptual and normative issues’,

Do industry collaborative projects enhance students’ learning?’,

Doctoral students on the university–industry interface: a review of literature’,

Does the aging of tenured academic staff affect the research performance of universities?’,

Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness’,

Ethical issues at the university–industry interface: a way forward?’,

Freedom ﬁghters ‘‘when it suits’’’, Times Higher Education Supplement,

Higher education funding’,

Industry, philanthropy, and universities: the roles and inﬂuences of the private sector

Intensiﬁcation of university– industry relationships and its impact on academic research’,

Lambert Review of Business–University Collaboration,

Links and impacts: the inﬂuence of public research on industrial R&D’,

Managing University–Industry Relations: a Study of Institutional Practices from 12 Different Countries,

Mode 2 society and the emergence of context-sensitive science’,

Non-instrumental roles of science’,

OECD Interactive Charts,

Patients’ health or company proﬁts? – the commercialisation of academic research’,

Problems for biomedical research at the academia–industrial interface’,

Promoting interdisciplinarity in engineering teaching’,

Proximity and interactive learning in university–ﬁrm relationships’,

R&D cooperation between ﬁrms and universities: some empirical evidence from Belgian manufacturing’,

Serving many masters: the PhD on the labour market, the everlasting need of inequality, and the premature death of Humboldt’,

Social networks, learning and ﬂexibility: sourcing scientiﬁc knowledge in new biotechnology ﬁrms’,

Social Theory and Social Structure,

Spillovers and innovative activities’,

Systems of innovation approaches – their emergence and characteristics’,

The ‘trafﬁc’ in graduate students: graduate students as tokens of exchange between academe and industry’,

The governance of university knowledge transfer: a critical review of the literature’,

The temptations of corporate funding’,

Unintended consequences of cooperative research: impact of industry sponsorship on climate for academic freedom and other graduate student outcomes’,

University–industry linkages in the UK: what are the factors underlying the variety of interactions with industry?’,

University–industry partnerships: what do they mean to universities?–ar e v i e wo ft h e literature’,

A typology of research training in university-industry collaboration: The case of life sciences in Finland

A typology of research training in university-industry collaboration: The case of life sciences in Finland

Abstract

Similar works

Full text

Available Versions

Crossref

Edinburgh Research Explorer