Industry and higher education: A question of values

A Model of Management Academics' Intentions to Influence Values

“…The search for more relevant management research (Starkey & Madan, 2000) also grants corporations greater influence over research topics and reduces academic autonomy (BennichBjörkman, 2007;Dill, 2003;MacLean, MacIntosh, & Grant, 2002; for a comprehensive discussion of academic-practitioner engagement see Hughes, Bence, Grisoni, O'Regan, & Wornham, 2011). This rigor-versus-relevance debate reflects often implicit assumptions about the role of values in higher education, as in the collision of more economic corporate values with society-related academic values (Tasker & Packham, 1993).…”

Collaboration with HEIs: A Key Capacity Building Block for the Uganda Water and Sanitation Public Sector

“…Governments in many developed countries have obliged HEIs to strengthen links with industry, and this in turn has resulted in higher income flows to HEIs (Tasker and Packham, 1993). Collaboration has also led to the increased influence of industry on academic research and curriculum design.…”

“…In the USA, for instance, national legislation passed over twenty years ago entrenched the central role of university-industry collaboration in university research agendas (Turk-Bicakci and Brint, 2005). Similarly, collaboration between HEIs and industry in the UK has been encouraged since the late 1990s by Labour Government policies which emphasize the concept of partnership in the aftermath of the Conservative era of deregulation and privatization which, it is argued, militated against social cohesion (Foskett, 2005;Tasker and Packham, 1993).…”

“…Although both industry and HEIs have had to adapt some of their value positions in response to the demands of collaboration (Tasker and Packham, 1993), it can be argued that these collaborations have been broadly positive (Slack, 2004). Examples of benefits to universities include financial support from industry for their educational, research and service missions, expanding the experience of students and lecturers, the identification of significant and relevant practical problems, the enhancement of regional economic development, and an increase in employment opportunities for students (Prigge, 2005).…”

“…Collaboration has also led to the increased influence of industry on academic research and curriculum design. In some extreme cases, courses have been planned, directed, taught, assessed, equipped and financed jointly by industry and HEIs (Tasker and Packham, 1993).…”