Editorial: Moving beyond metaphors: University-industry collaboration in biotechnology

There is enormous public interest in the role of universities as a primary source of new knowledge, new skills and new ideas for addressing many issues facing industrialized societies. In recognition of this, programs to promote university-industry collaboration have expanded rapidly in recent years...

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Published in:Journal of commercial biotechnology 2005-07, Vol.11 (4), p.301-304
Main Author: Lynskey, Michael J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biotechnology industry
Business education relationship
Collaboration
Colleges & universities
Cooperation
Economic development
Innovations
Knowledge
Metaphor
Pharmaceutical industry
R&D
Research & development
Science
Technological change
Technology transfer
University research
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Summary:There is enormous public interest in the role of universities as a primary source of new knowledge, new skills and new ideas for addressing many issues facing industrialized societies. In recognition of this, programs to promote university-industry collaboration have expanded rapidly in recent years. Surprisingly perhaps, it seems that much of the impetus for closer university-industry links is driven not by firms but by universities. Meanwhile, industry's views of growing university-industry research ties appears decidedly mixed. Ultimately, the ability to capture knowledge spillovers relies on the most critical contribution of the university to economic development: talent, the key resource of the knowledge economy. The term technology transfer is an oxymoron: technology is people and their knowledge that are transferred. This requires recurrent relationships which are nurtured over time in several stages, which may be labeled as the four A's of knowledge transfer: 1. awareness, 2. association, 3. assimilation, and 4. application.
ISSN:1462-8732
1478-565X
DOI:10.1057/palgrave.jcb.3040130