TY - JOUR
T1 - The motivations, institutions and organization of university-industry collaborations in the Netherlands
AU - Freitas, Isabel Maria Bodas
AU - Verspagen, Bart
N1 - Data Source: GGDC 10-sector database.
PY - 2017/7
Y1 - 2017/7
N2 - This study builds on the economics and organization literatures to explore whether and how institutions and organizational structure complement or substitute each other to create specific spaces of alignment where specific individual actors’ motivations co-exist. Focusing on university-industry collaborations, the study examines whether and how different axes of alignment of university and industry motivations are integrated in projects with specific technological objectives and organizational structures, benefitting from the presence of specific institutions designed to facilitate collaboration. Empirically, the study relies on in-depth data on 30 university-industry collaborations in the netherlands, and provides preliminary evidence that the technological objective and organizational structure of collaboration are malleable variables allowing the integration of both partners’ objectives and expectations. Different institutional incentives for university-industry collaboration favor specific axes of alignment of motivations and certain types of collaborative projects’ design. Hence, our exploratory results suggest that specific organizational and technological structures tend to prevail in the presence of specific institutions.
AB - This study builds on the economics and organization literatures to explore whether and how institutions and organizational structure complement or substitute each other to create specific spaces of alignment where specific individual actors’ motivations co-exist. Focusing on university-industry collaborations, the study examines whether and how different axes of alignment of university and industry motivations are integrated in projects with specific technological objectives and organizational structures, benefitting from the presence of specific institutions designed to facilitate collaboration. Empirically, the study relies on in-depth data on 30 university-industry collaborations in the netherlands, and provides preliminary evidence that the technological objective and organizational structure of collaboration are malleable variables allowing the integration of both partners’ objectives and expectations. Different institutional incentives for university-industry collaboration favor specific axes of alignment of motivations and certain types of collaborative projects’ design. Hence, our exploratory results suggest that specific organizational and technological structures tend to prevail in the presence of specific institutions.
KW - Incentives
KW - Motivations alignment
KW - Organization
KW - University-industry collaboration
KW - Innovation policy
U2 - 10.1007/s00191-017-0495-7
DO - 10.1007/s00191-017-0495-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 28736486
SN - 0936-9937
VL - 27
SP - 379
EP - 412
JO - Journal of Evolutionary Economics
JF - Journal of Evolutionary Economics
IS - 3
ER -