BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN UNIVERSITY AND INDUSTRY: THREE MECHANISMS FOR INNOVATION EFFICIENCY

Johanna Wallin (), Ola Isaksson (), Andreas Larsson () and Bengt-Olof Elfström ()
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Johanna Wallin: Product and Production Development, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden;
Ola Isaksson: Product and Production Development, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden;
Andreas Larsson: Design Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Bengt-Olof Elfström: Advanced Engineering, GKN Aerospace Engine Systems, 46181 Trollhättan, Sweden

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), 2014, vol. 11, issue 01, 1-18

Abstract: A key challenge for competence networking is the difficulty of contextual understanding between people from different organizations. Despite close collaboration, full insight into a company is difficult, although desirable, for university partners to achieve and vice versa. The case study described in this paper is of a company with long experience of university–industry collaboration. The paper reports on a designerly approach to overcome barriers of university–industry collaboration. The approach is combined with strategic, tactic and operational dimensions. It builds on three corresponding mechanisms: a tool to facilitate strategic understanding, workshops to facilitate tactical co-creation, and prototyping to facilitate operational ideation.

Keywords: Network innovation; university–industry collaboration; competence network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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