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Success factors and barriers in industry-academia collaborations - a descriptive model
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2023-10
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Hellwig, Imke
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Volume
2
Article Number
V002T02A005
Citation
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2023)
Contribution to Conference
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
ISBN
9780791887592
Companies cannot overcome the increasing complexity of nowadays cyber-physical systems alone. Thus, the industry uses academic research as an important source for gaining new knowledge and technologies. However, a successful exchange is fraught with barriers, so it is important to understand the success factors and barriers. This paper presents a model explaining the most relevant success factors and barriers to industry-academia collaborations and their relations. Based on a systematic literature review, an interview study, an online survey, and focus groups, we identified 22 relevant success factors and 22 barriers. We clustered these success factors and barriers into five categories: communication & feedback, information & (technical) support, motivation & commitment, people & team, and structure & organization. We believe that our model will help improve industry-academia collaboration's success by raising awareness of the barriers and offering success factors as setting levers. Furthermore, our model can serve as the basis for further research of methods for and to support industry-academia collaboration. Therefore, we intend to develop a methodology for challenge-driven industry-academia collaboration.
Subjects
Barriers
Industry-Academia Collaboration
Knowledge Management
Reference System Management
Research Industry Collaboration
Success Factors
Technology Transfer
University Research