The Third Mission of Universities in Icelandic Society: An Analysis of its Extent and Emphasis
The objective of our research is to analyse the extent of third mission engagement in Iceland, the main collaboration partners of academics, and barriers to collaboration. Hereby, we develop and modify scales regarding third mission activities (TM) of academics, and regarding academics’ perceptions...
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fticelandunivojs:oai:ojs.hi.is:article/3559 2023-05-15T16:49:42+02:00 The Third Mission of Universities in Icelandic Society: An Analysis of its Extent and Emphasis Þriðja hlutverk háskóla í íslensku samfélagi: Greining á umfangi og áherslum Karlsdóttir, Verena Torfason, Magnús Þ. Heijstra, Thamar M. Eðvarðsson, Ingi Rúnar 2022-06-28 application/pdf http://www.efnahagsmal.is/article/view/a.2022.19.1.1 https://doi.org/10.24122/tve.a.2022.19.1.1 isl ice Institute of Business Research http://www.efnahagsmal.is/article/view/a.2022.19.1.1/pdf http://www.efnahagsmal.is/article/view/a.2022.19.1.1 doi:10.24122/tve.a.2022.19.1.1 ##submission.copyrightStatement## Research in applied business and economics; Árg. 19, Nr 1 (2022); 1-26 Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál; Árg. 19, Nr 1 (2022); 1-26 1670-4851 1670-4444 Third Mission universities collaboration barriers gender position O31 O38 L26 L38 M10 Þriðja hlutverk háskólar samstarf hindranir kyn staða info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2022 fticelandunivojs https://doi.org/10.24122/tve.a.2022.19.1.1 2022-12-21T23:50:46Z The objective of our research is to analyse the extent of third mission engagement in Iceland, the main collaboration partners of academics, and barriers to collaboration. Hereby, we develop and modify scales regarding third mission activities (TM) of academics, and regarding academics’ perceptions of barriers to collaboration. For the research, a survey was sent out to the total population of 674 permanently employed academics at the University of Iceland in early 2021. Findings reveal that academics mostly collaborate within their own department and with foreign universities, but the least collaboration is with Icelandic or foreign companies. Most academics are positive towards increasing collaboration but tend to lack the time or opportunities. Overall, participation in TM is not very high, and on our innovation measure it is very low. Most common activities relate to lectures, public debates or talks to non-academic organisations. Women are more likely to take part in educational activities, and men in innovation activities. When analysing TM by academic position, professors score higher in all activities except educational activities. Academics at the School of Humanities are least likely to take part in any activities linked to TM. Teaching is the main perceived barrier to increasing collaboration, and we observe a gender difference where women perceive teaching and commercialisation activities as higher barriers than men. For non-professors teaching is a higher barrier than for professors. Academics belonging to the School of Humanities regard external factors in their environment as higher barriers to collaborate than do academics in other schools. Markmið þessarar rannsóknar er að greina umfang verkefna sem tengjast þriðja hlutverki háskóla á Íslandi, sem og samstarfsaðila háskólafólks í slíkum verkefnum og hindranir í samstarfi. Við smíðum kvarða um verkefni háskólafólks tengd þriðja hlutverkinu (ÞH) og um skynjaðar hindranir sem standa í vegi fyrir auknu samstarfi. Könnun var send á alla 674 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Iceland: Peer Reviewed Journals Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál 19 1 1 26 |
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The objective of our research is to analyse the extent of third mission engagement in Iceland, the main collaboration partners of academics, and barriers to collaboration. Hereby, we develop and modify scales regarding third mission activities (TM) of academics, and regarding academics’ perceptions of barriers to collaboration. For the research, a survey was sent out to the total population of 674 permanently employed academics at the University of Iceland in early 2021. Findings reveal that academics mostly collaborate within their own department and with foreign universities, but the least collaboration is with Icelandic or foreign companies. Most academics are positive towards increasing collaboration but tend to lack the time or opportunities. Overall, participation in TM is not very high, and on our innovation measure it is very low. Most common activities relate to lectures, public debates or talks to non-academic organisations. Women are more likely to take part in educational activities, and men in innovation activities. When analysing TM by academic position, professors score higher in all activities except educational activities. Academics at the School of Humanities are least likely to take part in any activities linked to TM. Teaching is the main perceived barrier to increasing collaboration, and we observe a gender difference where women perceive teaching and commercialisation activities as higher barriers than men. For non-professors teaching is a higher barrier than for professors. Academics belonging to the School of Humanities regard external factors in their environment as higher barriers to collaborate than do academics in other schools. Markmið þessarar rannsóknar er að greina umfang verkefna sem tengjast þriðja hlutverki háskóla á Íslandi, sem og samstarfsaðila háskólafólks í slíkum verkefnum og hindranir í samstarfi. Við smíðum kvarða um verkefni háskólafólks tengd þriðja hlutverkinu (ÞH) og um skynjaðar hindranir sem standa í vegi fyrir auknu samstarfi. Könnun var send á alla 674 ... |
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The Third Mission of Universities in Icelandic Society: An Analysis of its Extent and Emphasis |
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