The determinants of academic research commercial performance: Towards an organizational ambidexterity perspective

Chang, Yuan-Chieh, Phil Y. Yang and Chen, Ming-Huei

Research Policy, 2009, vol. 38, issue 6, pages 936-946

Abstract: This paper examined the relationship between organizational ambidexterity and research commercialization in universities. The paper develops two types of organizational ambidexterity: structural ambidexterity and contextual ambidexterity that influence research commercialization. Through a dataset of 474 academic patent inventors in Taiwan, the results revealed structural and contextual ambidexterity factors are patenting-, licensing- and start-up-specific. Despite both types of ambidexterity are complementary in patenting and licensing, contextual ambidexterity outperform structural ambidexterity in fostering university start-up equity participation. To promote academic research commercialization, it is necessary to build up a university as a dual structural organization that allows pursuing research excellence and research commercialization at the same time.

Keywords: Organizational; ambidexterity; Research; commercialization; Academic; patent; inventor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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