Title: The motivations of research teams and their cooperation with industry

Authors: Irene Ramos-Vielba; Celia Díaz-Catalán; Josefa Calero

Addresses: Research Institute for Work, Technology and Culture (F.A.T.K.), University of Tübingen, Haußerstraße 43, 72076 Tübingen, Germany ' Political Sciences and Sociology Faculty, Complutense University of Madrid, Campus de Somosaguas, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain; Sociology I, Political Sciences and Sociology Faculty, UNED, Calle de Obispo Trejo 2, Madrid, Spain ' Jot Internet Media, Calle General Ramírez de Madrid, 8, 6ª Planta, 28020 Madrid, Spain

Abstract: Taking researchers' motivations to cooperate with industry as the basis for exploring the characteristics and effects of their inducement, our analysis contributes to the debate on the factors interacting on university-industry engagement processes and thus helps to capture some intricate aspects of the nature of those cooperative exchanges. Our study includes a large variety of knowledge transfer channels, all scientific fields, and some relevant group (research teams) and individual (research teams' leaders) variables to make simultaneous observations. The specificities of the disparate reality observed regarding researchers' motivations and their involvement in cooperative mechanisms with industry demands a more focused and diversified course of action both in terms of further research and policy-making.

Keywords: research teams; researcher motivation; university-industry cooperation; industrial collaboration; knowledge transfer; scientific fields; scientific leaders; team leaders; commercialisation; transfer channels; cooperative mechanisms; policy making; technology transfer.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTTC.2014.072679

International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, 2014 Vol.13 No.1/2, pp.10 - 32

Received: 26 Mar 2014
Accepted: 12 Oct 2014
Published online: 24 Oct 2015 *

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