Complementarity and trade-off between academic work tasks

Ingvild Reymert and Taran Thune
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Ingvild Reymert: Nordic Institute for Studies of Research, Education and Innovation (NIFU) and Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
Taran Thune: Centre for technology, innovation and culture (TIK), University of Oslo

No 20200825, Working Papers on Innovation Studies from Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo

Abstract: Professors have multiple responsibilities, and contribute to research, education and third mission activities. These tasks are expected to be complementary, in such a way that synergies between tasks can lead to positive outcomes. But are academic tasks really complementary or are they characterised by trade-offs? This study of Norwegian university professors, predictably observe a trade-off between student supervision—a key part of professors’ educational responsibilities— and research performance, but also detect important synergies between supervision and third mission activities.

Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2020-08
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