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the GOODUEP project:
findings
EAIR Forum, Vilnius, August 2009
Paul Temple
Centre for
Higher Education Studies
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)
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levels of analysis
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National level
 6 countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, UK
 Desk research:
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Institutional level
 18 universities
 Empirical research
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Partnership level
 10 selected cases of good practices
 In-depth empirical research
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different national contexts:
% of GDP spent on R&D, by source
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2.5
2
1.5
GOVERD
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HERD
BERD
0.5
0
5
5
Source: OECD, Main Science and Technology Indicators, 2007
Patents per million population
…which produce different outcomes
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350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
DE
NL
UK
EU
IT
ES
PL
EPO patents
311,7
244,3
121,4
128
87,3
30,6
4,2
USPTO patents
129,8
84,2
50,6
52,2
30,8
6,5
0,6
Triad patents
53,8
47,4
15,8
20,8
8,3
2,7
0,2
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
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“embeddedness”
Mode 1
weak
strong
nature of knowledge
transfer
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extent of
organisational
embeddedness
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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