Scientific Knowledge Valorization in the Public R&D Sector: a Survey and a PLS-SEM Approach

Trabelsi Ramzi (), Kallal Rahim () and Maher Skhiri ()
Additional contact information
Trabelsi Ramzi: Committee of State Controllers
Kallal Rahim: IHEC Carthage, University of Carthage
Maher Skhiri: Ministry of Higher Education, DGVR

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, No 11, 226-254

Abstract: Abstract This study aims to identify the weaknesses that prevent the transfer of public R&D results in the socio-economic sphere. A survey was addressed to 205 scientific researchers working in different fields of R&D in Tunisia. A partial least squares structural equations modeling (PLS-SEM) was adapted to analyze the data collected from a questionnaire survey administered to people attached to the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MESRS) through universities, laboratories, and research structures. The results show many administrative, human, and financial difficulties that complicate the valorization process of scientific knowledge. R&D results cannot be exploited by companies due to the inconsistency between the results of public R&D and the real needs of the industry and society. The current policy of encouraging public and private partnerships in R&D has shown its ineffectiveness. The national innovation and research system must be completely revised and treated as a productive sector and not as a tool.

Keywords: Government policy; R&D; Higher education research institutions; Valorization scientific knowledge; Survey; PLS-SEM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 I2 O32 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s13132-021-00870-2 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:jknowl:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1007_s13132-021-00870-2

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/13132

DOI: 10.1007/s13132-021-00870-2

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of the Knowledge Economy is currently edited by Elias G. Carayannis

More articles in Journal of the Knowledge Economy from Springer, Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().