Perez Ruiz, Andres;
(2024)
Collaboration between Business Schools and Industry in
the UK.
Doctoral thesis (Ed.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This thesis explores the collaboration between business schools and industry and how this compares with other university schools. The study extends our understanding of university-industry collaboration (UIC) by focusing on business school-industry collaboration (BSIC) and comparing it to the existing literature on UIC. The thesis focuses on the general features of BSIC (forms, motivations, initiation and process), success factors, associated risks and challenges, and the impact of their membership in business ecosystems. To achieve this, in-depth interviews were conducted with business school deans and the content of business schools’ websites was analysed. The study provides a new classification of forms of collaboration and identifies three main motivations to collaborate, six ways of initiating relationships, and five groups of success factors. The thesis also evaluates the risks associated with BSIC as relatively low. It also reveals differences between UK business schools with global reach and those more regionally linked and shows that membership in a business ecosystem provides additional motivation to engage with industry and contribute to successful BSIC. Overall, the analysis reveals significant differences between business schools and other university schools regarding collaboration forms, motivations, how relationships are initiated, success factors, and associated risks and challenges. One of the main differences involves research projects, which are less collaborative and financially demanding for business schools than for other university schools like engineering or biomedical. However, research relationships between business schools and industry can be more intense, as the research object is typically the business itself. These differences have consequences for the academics’ skillset (more relational for business schools), the risks involved (higher for technical schools), and the nature of the research’s impact (on the business instead of a certain technology).
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ed.D |
| Title: | Collaboration between Business Schools and Industry in the UK |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2024. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10196291 |
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