British J of Management - 2022 - Corsi - Universities as Internationalization Catalysts Reversing Roles in University.pdf (2.22 MB)
Universities as internationalisation catalysts: reversing roles in university-industry collaboration
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posted on 2022-12-14, 11:37 authored by Simone CorsiSimone Corsi, Feranita Feranita, Mathew Hughes, Alex WilsonUniversity-Industry (U-I) collaboration is vital to the development of society. However, this important interaction has become somewhat of a caricature whereby a sequential and unidirectional relationship exists with universities creating knowledge and industries commercialising it. We address this issue by using the Triple Helix (TH) perspective and the network-revised Uppsala model of internationalisation to demonstrate how this relationship can be reversed. We present an embedded longitudinal case study of a UK-China Innovation Programme, run by a UK university with the aim of supporting the development of 62 collaborative innovation projects between 58 UK small and medium enterprises and Chinese organisations. The results reveal a pressing need to revisit universities’ third mission: transfer of academic knowledge to industry. The findings demonstrate universities’ role as internationalisation catalysts for firms engaged in U-I collaboration. This signals an important and underexplored component of the TH perspective. The knowledge exchange type in U-I relationships shows a possible reversal in firm and university roles, where knowledge and technology are contributed by firms, and access to markets is orchestrated by universities, which become internationalisation platforms.
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- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
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British Journal of ManagementPublisher
WileyVersion
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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Wiley under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2022-10-06Publication date
2022-11-14Copyright date
2022ISSN
1045-3172eISSN
1467-8551Publisher version
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- en