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| Author: | Ambos, T.C, (et al.) |
| Title: | When does university research get commercialized? Creating ambidexterity in research institutions |
| Journal: | Journal of Management Studies
2008 : DEC, VOL. 45:8, p. 1424-1447 |
| Index terms: | technological innovation R&D patents education universities institutions research commercialization United Kingdom |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Examined are the tensions making it difficult for a research-oriented university to achieve commercial outcomes (henceforth as: cmm-outs). Specified is the nature of the tensions at both organizational (here as: org-al.) and individual (as: ind-al.) levels of analysis, and how these tensions can get resolved. Developed are hypotheses linking specific aspects of the org-al. and the ind-al. researcher to the likelihood of their research projects generating cmm-outs. which are tested using a dataset of 207 Research Council-funded projects. The tension btw. academic and commercial demands (here as: a-and-c. dmds.) is shown to be more salient at the level of the ind-al. researcher than at the level of the organization. Universities are shown to be able to manage the tensions btw. a-and-c. dmds., via e.g. their creation of 'dual structures'. At the ind-al. level, on the other hand, the tensions are more acute. Thus, the people delivering cmm-outs. tend to be rather different to those accustomed to producing academic outcomes. |
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