Майснер Дирк

Incorporating Knowledge Triangle in University Management System: The Case of the Higher School of Economics, Russia

2021 · CHAPTER · en

Knowledge Triangle Governance in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

2021 · CHAPTER · en

The rise of do-it-yourself (DiY) laboratories: Implications for science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy

2021 · ARTICLE · en

From Auckland to Zagreb, DiY laboratories are ‘popping up’ in cities across the world. Organised around open-source principles, these independent community-based research hubs are often set up by scientists and science enthusiasts in order to learn, experiment and get involved in the world of science, technology and innovation (STI) advancement.

Technology Upgrading and Economic Catch-Up: Context, Overview, and Conclusions

2021 · CHAPTER · en

Entrepreneurial university: The relationship between smart specialization innovation strategies and university-region collaboration

2021 · ARTICLE · en

Addressing the effect of regional innovation strategies for smart specialization is beneficial. This study investigates the correlation between smart specialization innovation strategies and university-region collaboration. The findings of this study will help researchers and decision makers understand and strategically plan for linking education with industry and thus help create entrepreneurial universities. This paper examines the regional innovation strategies for smart specialization. The data was collected at a Croatian university. The research aims to study the effect of the link of an educational institute with industry and how that makes universities become more entrepreneurial. In our model, smart specialization is measured as an assessment of the benefits of university-regional collaboration for universities to become entrepreneurial. The results highlight that smart specialization innovation strategies are enhancing university collaboration regionally. We learn that involvement of universities is an essential ingredient.

Knowledge Triangle Targeted Science, Technology and Innovation Policy

2021 · CHAPTER · en

During the last decade, the concept of the Knowledge Triangle (KT) in the form of change processes that foster greater interaction between education, research and innovation activities has left the academic community and diffused to the higher education and research policy arena. As a result, numerous policy measures have been developed and implemented aiming at strengthening interaction between the different sides of the knowledge triangle. Similarly, structured and systematic efforts have been taken to describe and understand the important role of universities in the innovation landscape. Universities fulfil numerous missions but they also face the challenge of meeting diverging expectations by different stakeholders. Furthermore, this challenge is complicated by the fact that universities and their surrounding environments are not static but co-develop continuously. The book presents a number of case studies showing how universities react to these changing conditions. It shows examples of aligning universities to the Knowledge Triangle.

Targeted Science, Technology, and Innovation Policies to Enhance Knowledge Triangle

2021 · CHAPTER · en

Knowledge Triangle: The Right Concept to Align Universities Missions?

2021 · CHAPTER · en

Despite long-lasting discussions about Knowledge Triangle and Triple Helix universities missions have not changed much. Discussions about these concepts remain at aggregate level resulting in several approaches for measuring universities performance but are clearly less developed in terms of management concepts and practical applicability. Accordingly policy measures target at the sympthoms and might show some initial impact but it is doubtful if they achieve sustainable impact if not implemented at the operational level, e.g., targeting the cause. Eventually, it appears that universities are following the Knowledge Triangle thinking for a while already whereas debates have always stressed the importance of transferring knowledge and technology toward achieving impact, especially economic impact, but less attention as paid to the transfer of competences from research to teaching which is among the main functions of universities. This is only one observation from Knowledge Triangle and Triple Helix thinking. Eventually, it appears that both approaches are suitable analytical frameworks for assessing the actual missions and position of universities but not suitable for designing and implementing institutional strategies and governance models. Instead, the perception should be changed toward “Knowledge for the Triangle” which requires a dedicated balanced scorecard for institutional governance and performance boost.

Organizational Ambidexterity and Performance: Assessment Approaches and Empirical Evidence

2020 · ARTICLE · en

Three approaches are developed for assessment of different types of organizational ambidexterity proposed in the relevant literature. The new model for measurement of organizational ambidexterity using data envelopment analysis (DEA) is introduced. The DEA score based on innovation activity inputs and two different performance outputs acts as a proxy for organizational ambidexterity. Sustainability goals and product ambidexterity are also analyzed as the key characteristics of ambidextrous behavior. The introduced three approaches are tested for their aptness to complement each other as well as to support a strategic decision-making. Empirical examples from energy and pharma sectors associate organizational ambidexterity with firms’ performance. We measured the organizational ambidexterity of energy and pharma companies by (1) pursuing long-term versus short-term organizational performance measured as a DEA two-output efficiency score; (2) the share of disruptive products in a company’s activities assessed through the proportion of R&D expenditure or sales; and (3) sustainability versus financial performance of the company, where the Green ranking and participation in innovative financing programs were used as proxies for sustainable development. Positive relation between performance and organizational ambidexterity for energy sector are discovered. At the same time, orientation towards sustainability disrupts performance of pharmaceutical companies. Results of the OA impact on performance are highly industry-sensitive and depend on the methods used in empirical assessment. Our findings suggest that the scarcity of data sources make all three approaches complementary and mainly functional for strategic decision-making.

New challenges for universities in the knowledge triangle

2020 · ARTICLE · en

This paper discusses the role of higher education institutions within the framework of the knowledge triangle between academic education, scientific research and innovation, as it has gained importance in recent years as a framework for innovation policies especially in the OECD and Europe. First, complementary concepts of universities’ outreach activities and extended role model such as ‘third mission’, ‘triple helix’, ‘entrepreneurial or civic university’ models and ‘smart specialization’ are reflected against their fit with the concept of the knowledge triangle, also with respect to new requirements for university governance. Second, a new understanding of spillovers between public sectors research and the business sector according to knowledge triangle is presented.