PhDs with Industry Partners – Assessing Collaboration and Topic Distribution Using a Text Mining Methodology

Kilian Buehling () and Matthias Geissler
Additional contact information
Kilian Buehling: Technische Universität Dresden, Research Group Knowledge and Technology Transfer
Matthias Geissler: Rationalisierungs- und Innovationszentrum der Deutschen Wirtschaft e. V., RKW Kompetenzzentrum, Digitalization and Innovation Section

Chapter Chapter 2 in University-Industry Knowledge Interactions, 2022, pp 9-24 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Collaboration between universities and industry partners is thought to facilitate knowledge diffusion and provide resources and new ideas for academic researchers. However, recent evidence also suggests a possible trade-off or cost with regard to individual productivity. Given its focus on quantitative output, the literature is rather silent on possible qualitative shifts in researchers’ agendas when engaging with industry partners. We contribute to a discussion on potential negative effects of university-industry engagement by comparing the topic distributions of PhD theses based on collaborative and noncollaborative research. The results indicate little difference between the two kinds of dissertation projects. We conclude that fears of agenda setting in collaborative research are unwarranted.

Keywords: University-industry collaboration; Latent Dirichlet analysis; Topic modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

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:inschp:978-3-030-84669-5_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030846695

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84669-5_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in International Studies in Entrepreneurship from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().