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PLOS ONE
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283777
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This study investigates the micro-foundations of dynamic capabilities in university technology transfer through qualitative case studies at two organizations. The micro-foundations of sensing include selecting internal competency and sensing external partners, while seizing involves resource co-allocation and collaborative business model. The micro-foundations of reconfiguring include strategic renewal, establishing a university technology transfer-friendly environment, and asset orchestration. This study provides better understanding of how dynamic capabilities facilitate university technology transfer, and offers suggestions for industrial practitioners and policymakers.
Within the university-industry ecosystem, improvement and innovation of technology transfer involve implementing appropriate dynamic capabilities. To answer the question-What are the micro-foundations of dynamic capabilities in university technology transfer?-this study investigates in-depth organizational-level dynamic capabilities in transferring university-based knowledge to business and society. Two qualitative case studies were deployed at organizational entities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: the Industry Alliance Office, and the Demonstrator Lab. These two organizations stimulate science- and business-oriented university technology transfer. In this context, the micro-foundations of the dynamic capabilities sensing, seizing and reconfiguring are identified and discussed. For sensing, which is the university's ability to explore the opportunities in the ecosystem, the micro-foundations are selecting internal competency and sensing external partners. For seizing, which supports universities in managing complementarity with industry and society, micro-foundations include resource co-allocation and collaborative business model. The micro-foundations of reconfiguring, through which universities maintain evolutionary fitness in the innovation ecosystem, are strategic renewal, establishing a university technology transfer-friendly environment, and asset orchestration. This study provides researchers with a better understanding of how dynamic capabilities facilitate university technology transfer. Industrial practitioners and policymakers can consider the suggestions of the present study when pursuing collaboration with universities.
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