Leveraging communities of practice in university-industry collaboration: a case study on Arctic research

Iskanius, Päivi; Pohjola, Ilpo

doi:10.1504/ijbir.2016.074830

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“…The topic of university-industry cooperation is very prolific in the literature [6][7][8][9], and there are many different mechanisms (and formal or informal channels) for universities to liaise with enterprises that do not necessarily involve knowledge transfer [10][11][12][13]. This article focuses on understanding an uncoded tacit knowledge transfer channel, which allows continuous collaborative work: open innovation communities (OICs), understood as spaces that facilitate the exchange and use of tacit knowledge, collective learning, problem solving, and opportunities to innovate [14,15].…”

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confidence: 99%

Open Innovation Community for University–Industry Knowledge Transfer: A Colombian Case

Rolón

Méndez-Pinzón

Acevedo

2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Academia–enterprise collaboration is understood as a determinant that improves innovation and competitiveness. The mechanisms by which this collaboration occurs have awakened increasing interest among academics, as well as in the business sector. This research aims to identify how open innovation communities can mediate the academia-enterprise relationship, as well as the factors that are more affected by this mediation. Based on the literature, the article addresses the definition of open innovation communities (OICs), university–enterprise cooperation, knowledge transfer (KT), as well as an understanding of OICs as a mechanism for academia–enterprise transfer. An analysis of twelve OICs, conformed by professors, students, graduates, and experts from a Colombian higher education institution is performed. For the data analysis, a factor analysis involving structural equation modeling is carried out. Our results highlight the most important characteristics to take into account in the study of knowledge transfer when OICs are involved, and they also indicate the level of connection between these factors.

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confidence: 99%

Open Innovation Community for University–Industry Knowledge Transfer: A Colombian Case

Rolón

Méndez-Pinzón

Acevedo

2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…The scope of this study imposes some limitations. As mentioned, the supplier-customer relationship is unique, and the context of the study was specific in representing long-term triadic public-private collaboration, where the head of the co-innovation project was a university because of the research-and-innovation orientation of the projects (for importance of these types of relationships see also Iskanius and Pohjola, 2016). However, the key issue in the findings is the trusting personal-level relationships of long duration, and not the specific context.…”

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The value of long-term co-innovation relationships: experiential approach

Lehtimäki

Komulainen

Oinonen

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IJBIR

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Co-innovation often occurs in trustful long-term relationships when a fruitful match is found.Evaluating the value of those relationships is difficult but necessary for their management.Discussions of business-to-business relationship value have been revolving more around utilitarian elements even though experiential value aspects have gained increasing research interest. Here, the concept of experiential value is applied to understand the value of long-term co-innovation relationships. An exploratory case study of such a relationship between a supplier, its customer, and a university was built on in-depth interviews with key informants from each party. The study provides a multi-level framework of experiential value in the context of co-innovation relationships that encompasses the subjective, temporal, and contextual aspects of value as well as personal relationships and projects as devices that transfer individuals' value experiences between individuals and organisations, and through time. This study contributes to relationship value and co-innovation research by elaborating on the experiential aspects of relationship value.

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“…Technology's role in mediating real-world relevance (Bhatnagar & Badke-Schaub, 2017) is critical, as it can proactively induct novices into professional practice (P. Brown, 2015;Herrington, Reeves, & Oliver, 2014). This perspective should be noted especially nowadays, when industry-university alliances are increasingly endorsed by academic institutions (Iskanius & Pohjola, 2016;Mulgan, Townsley, & Price, 2016). That said, only a few VCoP studies have chosen to consider cross-organizational setups.…”

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“…The study employed an authentic CoP model (Iskanius & Pohjola, 2016), with members from the industry willingly joining the community as mentors and expert evaluators for the students. These members tend to be ethically motivated to share their expertise and contribute positively to higher education.…”

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“…The CoP framework, which originates from situated learning and cognitive apprenticeship theories (J. S. Brown, Collins, & Duguid, 1989;Lave & Wenger, 1991), sees the community as "a living curriculum for the apprentice" (Clarke, 2009) or novice learner, giving the latter the opportunity to participate, observe and imitate more competent members of the community. By cross-organizational, we refer to communities that span across spheres, such as education and industry (Albats, 2018;Iskanius & Pohjola, 2016). Through this connection, formal education programs can be supported by industry professionals, while simultaneously being augmented by authenticity, by which we mean learning that is informed by real-world problems, needs and evaluation criteria (Bhatnagar & Badke-Schaub, 2017).…”

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A Cross-organizational Ecology for Virtual Communities of Practice in Higher Education

Mavri

Ioannou

Loizides

2019

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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This work investigates Communities of Practice (CoPs) that support social learning in higher education. While most CoP research has taken place in single-stream contexts (e.g. in a university), this study reports on the ecology of a cross-organizational community (university and industry stakeholders) in the context of the formal curriculum. The work examines the role of technology configurations in supporting CoPs in Design and related studies. It also reports on the type and level of technology adoption, focusing on the learner perspective. This study's CoP is made up of 21 third-year university students and ten external stakeholders (mentors, clients and industrial experts). The study concludes with a set of guidelines for the design and evaluation of similar CoP technology configurations. Key guidelines suggest a) supporting enhanced awareness of identity, space and time, b) enabling roles and permissions on-demand according to the requirements of the activities carried out in shared spaces and c) facilitating fluid interoperability between the domain-specific and mainstream/generic productivity tools used by the community. The outcomes of this work can assist instructors, researchers and practitioners in the design of similar technology configurations for CoPs in the formal curricula of their respective Design or relevant fields.

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Leveraging communities of practice in university-industry collaboration: a case study on Arctic research

Cited by 13 publications

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Open Innovation Community for University–Industry Knowledge Transfer: A Colombian Case

Open Innovation Community for University–Industry Knowledge Transfer: A Colombian Case

The value of long-term co-innovation relationships: experiential approach

A Cross-organizational Ecology for Virtual Communities of Practice in Higher Education

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