Mediation in the Dutch science system

Meulen, Barend van der; Rip, Arie

doi:10.1016/s0048-7333(98)00088-2

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“…Expanding the suggestion to policymakers, there should be an intentional and strategic focus on creating programs to facilitate the acceleration of the commercialisation of innovation as means to increase financial results for the universities that could turn into new funds to allow more research projects, following the logic of the strategic intermediary level of the NSI as explained by Meulen and Rip (1998). The financial difficulties to innovation in developing countries could be partly overcome by private funding derived from the technology commercialisation.…”

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“…The intermediary is located between the seeker of knowledge and resources needed for innovation on one side, and the source of them on the other side (Gianiodis et al, 2010). Or as the distinction by Meulen and Rip (1998), an intermediary is in between the top level of government agencies and the research BAR, Rio de Janeiro, v. 14, n. 4, art. 2, e170048, 2017 www.anpad.org.br/bar performance level.…”

Section: Ttos As Intermediaries Of Collaborative Randd Projects: a Revimentioning

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Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

Thomas

Vieira

Balestrin

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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The literature about collaboration for innovation has reported fundamental activities performed by intermediaries. In this paper, universities' technology transfer offices (TTOs) are placed as intermediaries between academic research and the industry. Our study focuses on collaborative research and development (R&D) projects between universities and industry in order to understand the roles of TTOs throughout the whole duration of the project. The main aim of this paper is to identify the roles of TTOs throughout collaborative R&D projects and suggest some lessons for Brazilian TTOs based on the experience of the United Kingdom. Through qualitative case studies in the United Kingdom and Brazil, the analyses show that both TTOs performed critical activities for collaborative R&D projects. Similar activities at both TTOs were the management of partnerships in terms of negotiating contracts and the protection and licensing of intellectual property. Findings also show that the search for partners in the beginning of the project, the pacifier role of the TTO to help mutual understanding, and the active commercialisation of academic research to external partners happened only in the UK case, which may generate implications for TTOs in Brazil.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ttos As Intermediaries Of Collaborative Randd Projects: a Revimentioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

Thomas

Vieira

Balestrin

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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“…Typically, the relevant literature probes the functions of intermediaries, such as their capacity to weave together networks and actors, to articulate options and demands, and to enable learning processes. The study of intermediaries is also important in the study of science politics interfaces, which considers intermediaries as necessary actors for organizing the cooperation between politics and science (Guston 1999, Van der Meulen & Rip 1998, Kearnes & Wienroth 2011.…”

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'Don't make nanotechnology sexy, ensure its benefits, and be neutral': Studying the logics of new intermediary institutions in ambiguous governance contexts

Åm

2013

Science and Public Policy

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“…The term 'international collaboration' may also be conceptually problematic. It could be understood to refer to interactions between actors at all four levels that Van der Meulen and Rip (1998) identify in the research system -including the governmental level of policymakers, the intermediary level of funding agencies and the organisational level of research institutes and universities. Finally, international research collaboration can beand generally is understood to refer to -the interaction between scientists at the operational level of the research system supported, or not, by agreements made at higher levels of the research system.…”

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