Beyond ambidexterity: universities and their changing roles in driving regional development in challenging times.

IF 4.6 2区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Journal of Technology Transfer Pub Date : 2023-01-08 DOI:10.1007/s10961-022-09992-4
Elisa Thomas, Rhiannon Pugh, Danny Soetanto, Sarah L Jack
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Around the world today, universities are expected to play a unique role as creators of regional growth and innovation. While there appears to be a consensus that the role of universities has been expanded, critiques show that the contribution of universities to their regions is still not well defined. There have been some developments in the literature on the concept of modern universities such as the triple helix, entrepreneurial university and engaged university. However, those concepts focus on enforcing universities' roles in a single domain such as entrepreneurship, innovation, or civic engagement. Little is known about how universities can facilitate regional growth that goes beyond knowledge transfer activities such as spin-off creation, licensing, and patenting. This paper contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of universities' role in regional growth through the theoretical lens of ambidexterity. Using ambidexterity, universities with a regional focus were distinguished from those engaged in research commercialization and traditional third-mission roles. Through two case studies, this study found that teaching, research, and engagement should not be separated, since they can serve both economic and social missions. As a result, a new model of multidextrous universities is proposed where universities meet both economic and social missions through teaching, research, and engagement. Contrary to previous contributions which presented universities as ambidextrous organizations where tension appears only between research commercialization and research publication or between teaching and research, this study suggests that universities need to overcome tensions and incorporate a sense of place in all activities to successfully contribute to regional growth.

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超越灵活性:在充满挑战的时代,大学及其在推动地区发展方面不断变化的作用。
当今世界,人们期望大学作为地区增长和创新的创造者发挥独特的作用。虽然人们似乎一致认为大学的作用已经扩大,但批评意见表明,大学对其所在地区的贡献仍然没有得到很好的界定。关于现代大学概念的文献有了一些发展,如三重螺旋、创业型大学和参与型大学。然而,这些概念侧重于强化大学在创业、创新或公民参与等单一领域的作用。对于大学如何促进知识转让活动以外的地区增长,如衍生产品创造、许可和专利申请,人们知之甚少。本文通过 "灵巧性 "的理论视角,有助于更全面地理解大学在地区增长中的作用。本研究利用 "协同性 "将以地区为重点的大学与从事研究商业化和传统第三使命的大学区分开来。通过两个案例研究,本研究发现,教学、研究和参与不应分开,因为它们既可以服务于经济使命,也可以服务于社会使命。因此,本研究提出了一种新的 "多元大学 "模式,即大学通过教学、研究和参与满足经济和社会使命。与以往将大学视为仅在研究商业化与研究出版或教学与研究之间出现紧张关系的双向组织的观点不同,本研究认为,大学需要克服紧张关系,并在所有活动中融入地方意识,以成功促进地区增长。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Technology Transfer provides an international forum for research on the economic, managerial and policy implication of technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and innovation. The Journal is especially interested in articles that focus on the relationship between the external environment and organizations (governments, public agencies, firms, universities) and their innovation process. The Journal welcomes alternative modes of presentation ranging from broad empirical analyses, to theoretical models, to case studies based on theoretical foundations.  Officially cited as: J Technol Transf
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