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the GOODUEP project: findings EAIR Forum, Vilnius, August 2009 Paul Temple Centre for Higher Education Studies

3 the GOODUEP project Project co-funded by the European Commission, DG/EAC Objectives of the project:  To map university/enterprise partnerships (UEPs) in 18 universities in 6 European countries  To analyse structures and governance of UEPs  To identify success factors and examples of good practice What kind of UEPs?  All types of higher education institutions  All type of business (public or private sector)  All type of partnerships (high-level labs to sports facilities)

4 levels of analysis 1National level  6 countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, UK  Desk research: 2Institutional level  18 universities  Empirical research 3Partnership level  10 selected cases of good practices  In-depth empirical research 4

5 different national contexts: % of GDP spent on R&D, by source 5 Source: OECD, Main Science and Technology Indicators, 2007

6 …which produce different outcomes

7 provisional conclusions an enormous diversity of UEPs across Europe: an increasingly important university activity everywhere different approaches reflect contexts and policies (national, regional, institutional) key role of institutional governance: where very closely regulated, “shortcuts” in managing UEPs are apparent funding: financial incentives for the institution, financial or non-financial incentives for staff people: academic entrepreneurs, networks

8 “embeddedness” Mode 1 weakstrong extent of organisational embeddedness nature of knowledge transfer

9 some policy implications create institutional processes which allow departments to embed the knowledge benefits of UEPs allow individuals to derive financial/other benefits from working on UEPs this may involve legal changes to facilitate UEP formation

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