TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic faculty as intellectual property in university-industry research alliances
AU - Boardman, Craig
AU - Bozeman, Barry
N1 - Funding Information:
To start, we define what we mean by ‘university-industry research alliances’. For example, while we consider research centers sponsored by the NSF, DOE, and NIH to be relevant, we exclude traditional, individual investigator-lead university laboratories with industry support and also industry consortia with academic participants.
Funding Information:
To name just a few, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established numerous cooperative research centers programs for uniting academic and industry researchers, such as the Engineering Research Centers and Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers programs; the Department of Energy (DOE) has its Energy Frontier Research Centers and Energy Innovation Hubs; the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have Translational Research Centers; and most recently the Obama Administration established the Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation. What all of these and like efforts have in common is that they are predominantly university-based, involve direct participation by industry, and are problem-rather than discipline-focused (Bozeman and Boardman 2003).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2015/7/4
Y1 - 2015/7/4
N2 - In this article, we consider a particular type of strategic alliance that is perhaps most difficult to operate: those involving universities and industry that are based in a university setting. We consider this type of research alliance because while we know they face formidable challenges in terms of property rights – with the academic faculty participating in these alliances constituting the ‘property’ – there is very little study of how to address these challenges. Accordingly, we review a number of literatures focused on the shared use of human capital, from management science, organizational behavior, and science policy studies, among others, emphasizing the incenting of collaborative, boundary-spanning research. We discern lessons from these literatures for incenting industry-focused research in university settings and make some recommendations for future research on university-industry research alliances.
AB - In this article, we consider a particular type of strategic alliance that is perhaps most difficult to operate: those involving universities and industry that are based in a university setting. We consider this type of research alliance because while we know they face formidable challenges in terms of property rights – with the academic faculty participating in these alliances constituting the ‘property’ – there is very little study of how to address these challenges. Accordingly, we review a number of literatures focused on the shared use of human capital, from management science, organizational behavior, and science policy studies, among others, emphasizing the incenting of collaborative, boundary-spanning research. We discern lessons from these literatures for incenting industry-focused research in university settings and make some recommendations for future research on university-industry research alliances.
KW - R&D management
KW - research collaboration
KW - team science
KW - technology transfer
KW - university research center
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U2 - 10.1080/10438599.2014.988499
DO - 10.1080/10438599.2014.988499
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84927696730
SN - 1043-8599
VL - 24
SP - 403
EP - 420
JO - Economics of Innovation and New Technology
JF - Economics of Innovation and New Technology
IS - 5
ER -