Barriers to academic collaboration with industry and community: Individual and organisational factors
This article presents findings on factors hindering academic employees from becoming involved in collaboration activities. Based on survey data, we map out perceived barriers to collaboration whereby five categories emerge: teaching obligations, partner (dis)interest, partners’ resources, academic f...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/09504222231173953 2024-05-12T08:05:54+00:00 Barriers to academic collaboration with industry and community: Individual and organisational factors Karlsdottir, Verena Torfason, Magnus Thor Edvardsson, Ingi Runar Heijstra, Thamar Melanie 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09504222231173953 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09504222231173953 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/09504222231173953 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Industry and Higher Education volume 37, issue 6, page 792-809 ISSN 0950-4222 2043-6858 Education Business and International Management journal-article 2023 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/09504222231173953 2024-04-18T08:34:17Z This article presents findings on factors hindering academic employees from becoming involved in collaboration activities. Based on survey data, we map out perceived barriers to collaboration whereby five categories emerge: teaching obligations, partner (dis)interest, partners’ resources, academic freedom, and university resources. By means of multiple regression analysis, we examine the extent to which individual, intra-, and inter-organisational factors explain these perceived barriers to collaboration. The study was carried out in Iceland, where university objectives are still heavily based on teaching activities, and few entrepreneurial activities take place in academia. Our results reveal that age and academic disciplines play a main role in the perceptions of academics regarding barriers to collaboration, especially when it comes to barriers grounded in teaching obligations or university resources. Most perceived barriers are based on the internal level that is lack of resources on behalf of universities. The study, therefore, provides a new perspective relative to earlier findings that have indicated that barriers to collaboration exist mostly at the individual level. We conclude that academic institutions can play a more prominent role in the activation of third mission activities than they have been doing so far. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland SAGE Publications Industry and Higher Education 37 6 792 809 |
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This article presents findings on factors hindering academic employees from becoming involved in collaboration activities. Based on survey data, we map out perceived barriers to collaboration whereby five categories emerge: teaching obligations, partner (dis)interest, partners’ resources, academic freedom, and university resources. By means of multiple regression analysis, we examine the extent to which individual, intra-, and inter-organisational factors explain these perceived barriers to collaboration. The study was carried out in Iceland, where university objectives are still heavily based on teaching activities, and few entrepreneurial activities take place in academia. Our results reveal that age and academic disciplines play a main role in the perceptions of academics regarding barriers to collaboration, especially when it comes to barriers grounded in teaching obligations or university resources. Most perceived barriers are based on the internal level that is lack of resources on behalf of universities. The study, therefore, provides a new perspective relative to earlier findings that have indicated that barriers to collaboration exist mostly at the individual level. We conclude that academic institutions can play a more prominent role in the activation of third mission activities than they have been doing so far. |
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Barriers to academic collaboration with industry and community: Individual and organisational factors |
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Barriers to academic collaboration with industry and community: Individual and organisational factors |
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