Blended system thinking approach to strengthen the education and training in university-industry research collaboration

Iqbal, Anjum; Khan, Adnan Shahid; Abdullah, Johari; Kulathuramaiyer, Narayanan; Senin, Aslan Amat

doi:10.1080/09537325.2021.1905790

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“…Therefore, the open-source learning framework explicitly enhances participants' sustainability competencies in systemic thinking and professional skills and implies the promotion of interdisciplinary cooperation. Furthermore, the results validate the conclusions of previous literature, i.e., systemic thinking, professional skills, and interdisciplinary collaboration complement each other and form individual competencies in sustainability [37,38].…”

Section: How Does the Open-source Learning Framework Strengthen Parti...supporting

confidence: 86%

Individual sustainability competence development in engineering education: Community interaction open-source learning

Li,

Huang,

Yang

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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This empirical research creates and assesses a community interaction open-source learning framework. The framework established an efficient open-source learning environment for engineering courses to develop undergraduates’ sustainability competencies. The teaching practice of the framework was designed into three stages: course preparation, theory lecture, and project practice. In the teaching practice, community interaction elements were embedded, including community/student two-way selection, systemic teaching and difficulty discussion, expert/student negotiation on teaching forms, teacher/expert coordination on teaching contents, and expert/student two-way feedback on schedules. The interaction elements between students, teachers, and experts enhanced the effectiveness of open-source learning in engineering courses. The experimental results showed that the students exhibited a positive attitude and high participation in the learning procedure and reported a sense of achievement in the project practice. The open-source learning framework significantly improved systemic thinking, conceptual understanding, interdisciplinary collaboration and professional skills. It enhanced students’ key sustainability competencies and laid the foundation for them to become expertise-based innovators and open-source community contributors.

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confidence: 86%

Individual sustainability competence development in engineering education: Community interaction open-source learning

Li,

Huang,

Yang

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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“…On the other hand, the university must carry out basic frontier research in order to train high-capacity human resources, which can be agents of change within the companies themselves, and for the generation of scientific capacities to take advantage of the scientific and technological opportunities that may arise (Iqbal et al, 2022). The university must anticipate market needs and, in a sense, to contribute to generate a more developed market .…”

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confidence: 99%

PLS-SEM MODEL ON BUSINESS DEMAND FOR TECHNOLOGICAL SERVICES AND R&D AND INNOVATION ACTIVITIES

García-Machado

Sroka

Nowak

2023

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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The aim of the current study is to search for the elements that determine the companies’ demand for technological services, and by doing so, to contribute to the advancement of a closer University-Company partnership in the sphere of activities in research, development and innovation. Based on the PLS-SEM methodology, an explanatory-predictive model was drawn up, which concluded that the four most influential variables are: the influence of the environment, market conditions, the technology adoption decision and the economic characteristics of the company. The originality and main contributions of this work lie in the construction and design of the proposed model, particularly the application of both the Confirmatory Tetrad Analysis and the Global Goodness-of-Fit measures adapted for the scope of PLS-SEM, both aiming to elaborate on its use and to provide a model that could be used by other researchers in different regions. By implementing this type of analysis, it is possible to better understand the drivers that push the choice of enterprises concerning the demand for technological services and, subsequently, policymakers, academy, and R&D agencies, as well as corporations leading to better strategies for closer and stronger cooperation and collaboration among themselves.

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“…Zavale and Schneijderberg (2020) also contend that using the same reductionist conceptual models as developed countries to study UIC in the context of SSA is doomed to emphasize its weakness and limitations, rather than painting an accurate and complete picture of the region's specificities. To address the limitations of existing conceptual models, several recent studies have advocated an integrated approach (Iqbal et al, 2021;Galan-Muros and Davey, 2017). Holistic conceptual models, such as the "helix models" of innovation, are often used in UIC-related studies, but their macrolevel dimension does not allow adequate study of the institutional decision-making aspects.…”

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Toward the identification of mechanisms to ensure effective university-industry collaboration in sub-Saharan Africa

Nsanzumuhire

Groot

Cabus³

et al. 2023

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Purpose This study aims at advancing the understanding of University-Industry Collaboration (UIC) by proposing an adapted conceptual model for comprehensive contextual analysis taking industry perspective and identifying effective mechanisms for stimulating UIC in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design/methodology/approach This study was designed as a multicase qualitative study. Data were collected through interviews of focus groups representing 26 agro-processing companies operating in Rwanda. The process consisted of two sessions evaluating the current collaboration patterns, and two sessions identifying the desired future and the mechanisms to realize it. Data were analyzed using ATLAS.ti software with the grounded theory techniques. Findings Findings indicate that current interactions are unidirectional and focus on educational collaboration. Results are short-term and do not yield sufficient benefit for the companies involved. Industry aspirations for future collaboration were identified, along with linkages between inputs, activities and outcomes. Research limitations/implications This study has two noteworthy limitations. First, this study did not consider the capacity of firms to collaborate. Second, for simplification purposes, this study did not integrate other complementary sources of knowledge for firms. To overcome these omissions, a short introduction of University–Industry Collaboration (UIC) was presented to participants highlighting and justifying the scope of the study. As research implications, this paper presents a new integrated conceptual framework, which can be useful for studies focusing on a comprehensive analysis of the UIC context and identifying effective mechanisms for improvement in the future. A construct of policies that stimulate UIC is proposed, thereby facilitating further operationalization and testing of context-specific hypotheses on policy stimuli. Practical implications In practice, the identified conceptual framework allows to holistically capture and reflect on the interrelationships between UIC factors and outcomes for a specific context, hence, informing better UIC decision-making. In this way, this paper advances the operationalization of the argument for reconciling organizational theories with their practices. Social implications This paper presents a systemic means for organizational theories to perform their adaptive role in society. Indeed, as demonstrated by the empirical results, the proposed framework is effective not only in systematically assessing the current situation, but also in predicting the desired state in the future. In other words, the proposed framework facilitates prescience theorizing, which is a mechanism for ensuring that organizational theories adapt to future requirements of the society. Originality/value This study develops a new integrative conceptual framework to accommodate the interaction between UIC’s institutional decision-making and existing macrolevel frameworks of innovation ecosystems. In terms of methodology, the value of this study lies in its adoption of an ex ante approach to the development of mechanisms to stimulate UIC. This use of prescience theory (Corley and Gioia, 2011) constitutes an important – but long-neglected – approach to UIC and its adaptive role in society.

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Blended system thinking approach to strengthen the education and training in university-industry research collaboration

Cited by 6 publications

References 61 publications

Individual sustainability competence development in engineering education: Community interaction open-source learning

Individual sustainability competence development in engineering education: Community interaction open-source learning

PLS-SEM MODEL ON BUSINESS DEMAND FOR TECHNOLOGICAL SERVICES AND R&D AND INNOVATION ACTIVITIES

Toward the identification of mechanisms to ensure effective university-industry collaboration in sub-Saharan Africa

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