Increasing the Impact of Industry–Academia Collaboration through Co-Production

Sannö, Anna; Öberg, Anna Ericson; Flores-García, Erik; Jackson, Mats

doi:10.22215/timreview/1232

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“…Once more the described practices are coherent with a DT-mindset, but DT was not explicitly applied or mentioned. A recent action research study reveals a positive impact of co-production / co-creation activities (as in DT) to joint problem formulation, research methodology, capacity-building, communication, and project outcome in industry-academia collaborations (Sannö, Ericsen Öberg, Flores-Garcia, & Jackson, 2019), however, DT has not been mentioned specifically as facilitation tool.…”

Section: Industry-academia Research and Innovation Consortia And Desimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Use of Design Thinking in Transdisciplinary Research and Innovation Consortia: Challenges, Enablers, and Benefits

Galler

Pabst

2019

jim

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The innovation management literature describes a competitive advantage when applying Design Thinking (DT) in corporate environments. In this paper we study the perceived challenges, enablers, and benefits for implementing DT in publicly funded transdisciplinary industry-academia research and innovation consortia (RIC). We facilitate and investigate five large RIC from the food and high-tech industry in Norway and Germany using an explorative qualitative action research design. Our research shows that the challenges of using DT in RIC are to some extent comparable to those for the corporate context. Additionally, we identify distinct challenges for RIC. Benefits from using DT in RIC are stronger user and innovation focus, better transdisciplinary collaboration, and triangulation of qualitative with scientific data. We suggest that complex RIC benefit from an intermediary (DT) role translating business needs into research questions, and research results into understandable and business-relevant information and innovation.

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Section: Industry-academia Research and Innovation Consortia And Desimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Use of Design Thinking in Transdisciplinary Research and Innovation Consortia: Challenges, Enablers, and Benefits

Galler

Pabst

2019

jim

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“…To keep focus and interest in the research project it is essential that the research project address a problem area and research questions that are of interest for both practitioners and academia (Svensson et al, 2 007; Gallien et al , 2016; Toffel, 2016). In addition, Sannö et al (2019) point out that it is equally important to have a shared view on the expected results.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are different collaborative approaches and attempts to bridge the gap between research and practice and increase the practical relevance of research, for example collaborative management research, action research and interactive research (Coughlan and Coghlan, 2002; Adler et al , 2004; Aagard Nielsen and Svensson, 2006). This also includes reported research on how collaboration between researchers and practitioners increases our understanding of performance excellence (Latham, 2008) and that co-production of knowledge is one way to increase the impact of industry-academia collaboration (Sannö et al , 2019).…”

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Interactive research in production start-up—application and outcomes

Berglund

Harlin

Säfsten

2020

JMTM

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to reflect on interactive research as a means to create relevant knowledge in the domain of operations management in general and specifically in the context of production start-up.Design/methodology/approachThe reflection on the use of interactive research in production start-ups was based on a study of two completed interactive research projects. The lens for reflection was a framework including context, quality of relationship, quality of the research process itself and outcomes.FindingsThe context was industrial manufacturing companies in Sweden, with different kind of challenges related to production start-ups, such as collaboration between involved functions and suppliers, competence development and work routines. Indicators of the quality of relationship between researchers and practitioners were initiated development activities and new collaboration between functions, within the company, between companies and in supply chains. The reflection of the quality of the research process itself was based on an interactive research process including four iterative steps with regular follow-ups allowing joint practitioner and researcher reflection on the progress. Identified outcomes included increased awareness and competence on how to deal with production start-ups, improvements of communication, work procedures and structures, better use of competences, increased cross-functional dialogue and cultural understanding.Practical implicationsImplications for practitioners are the possibilities for knowledge creation through interactive collaboration in research projects enabling exchange between researchers from complementary fields and other companies dealing with production start-ups.Originality/valueThe interactive research approach enables joint knowledge creation in a fast-changing context such as production start-ups as well as value-adding results both for practitioners in industry and for academia.

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“…Scientific knowledge that does not make the required contribution seriously hinders university-industry collaboration. If the universities are not creating knowledge and skills and disseminate it to solve industry problems, the industry will remain ignorant and reluctant to apply the new technologies discovered by the universities (Sannö et al, 2019).…”

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The Contribution of Integrated Polytechnic Regional College (IPRC) Musanze in Creating Valuable Uses to Tomato Crop Farm-Leftovers

2021

JEP

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The study was carried out to identify potential value addition to tomato crop farm-leftovers and investigate their existing end-uses to suggest a collaboration model between tomato farmers in Nkotsi Sector and IPRC Musanze. The findings confirmed that the tomato crop stems are the main type of tomato crop farm-leftovers found on the farm, leaves and roots are also present in minor quantities. Those farm-leftovers are mainly used for compost making, some remain unused at farm level, and few are used for feeding animals. For whatever destination, the tomato crop farm-leftovers do not generate any cash to farmers, and unfortunately, 91% of farmers are not aware of crop farm-leftovers negative effects. All respondents know the IPRC Musanze, and 59% of them recognize its community outreach activities. However, 97% of farmers do not have any previous collaboration with the college even though they show willingness for future collaboration. 62% of interviewed IPRC Musanze TVET trainers revealed limited advanced tomatoes farming activities in the area, and crop farm-leftovers negative effects. A collaboration model between farmers and the college is designed as a new way of working to boost tomato farming in the area as well as improving the quality of TVET training offered by the college. The stable relations, trust, shared problem, resources, planned joint activities and their execution are the elements of the proposed model. Therefore, technical training, joint applied research and innovation activities, joint problem-solving initiatives were suggested as the starting point for the proposed model.

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Increasing the Impact of Industry–Academia Collaboration through Co-Production

Cited by 31 publications

References 18 publications

The Use of Design Thinking in Transdisciplinary Research and Innovation Consortia: Challenges, Enablers, and Benefits

The Use of Design Thinking in Transdisciplinary Research and Innovation Consortia: Challenges, Enablers, and Benefits

Interactive research in production start-up—application and outcomes

The Contribution of Integrated Polytechnic Regional College (IPRC) Musanze in Creating Valuable Uses to Tomato Crop Farm-Leftovers

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