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- PublikationThe importance of organizational culture and climate for the involvement of Swiss academic research units in knowledge sharing with private companies(2019) Heimsch, Fabian; Barjak, FranzThe culture of open science that has governed communication and behaviour in academic organizations for a long time, above all in universities, has undergone changes in the light of the increasing importance of third mission activities, such as knowledge and technology transfer and commercialization of academic inventions. However, not all academic organizations have embraced this change and we still do not have a full understanding, how different organizational missions, internal incentives, and regulations of knowledge sharing activities relate to the performance und importance of different mechanisms of knowledge sharing. This contribution addresses this gap by drawing on a new data set of more than 900 institutes at Swiss academic organizations. We find that the mission and self-conception of an organization matters at the immediate level of the institute, as well as at the more remote level of the university or organization. What matters more depends on the mechanism of knowledge sharing in04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift
- PublikationUnderstanding the relationship between organisational culture and open innovation(ISPIM, 2018) Heimsch, Fabian; Barjak, Franz; Bitran, I.; Conn, Stefan; Huizingh, Eelko; Kokshagina, Olga; Torkkeli, M.; Tynnhammar, Marcus [in: Proceedings of the XXIX ISPIM Innovation Conference. Innovation, The Name of the Game]Different cultural traits of organisations, such as the orientation towards flexibility, risk toler-ance, and reflexivity have been found to influence their innovation performance. However, the relationship of corporate culture to openness of innovation activities has been largely over-looked, except for early studies on the so-called not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome and few newer studies. Our contribution aims at closing this gap. Drawing on a survey of more than 250 Swiss companies, we relate different constructs of organisational culture to the openness of technological innovation activities. We find that openness varies considerably by company size, age, and group membership. A complementary relationship between internal R&D and open-ness prevails. Out of six cultural constructs we find the strongest correlation between a rule and plan-oriented culture and the degree of openness of process innovations. Moreover, spontane-ous decision-making and action relates negatively to procuring innovation support act04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift
- PublikationPaving the way for a new composite indicator on business model innovations(Universiteit Leiden - CWTS, 2014) Barjak, Franz; Bill, Marc; Noyons, Ed [in: Proceedings of the Science and Technology Indicators Conference 2014 Leiden “Context Counts: Pathways to Master Big and Little Data”]The paper conceptualises business model innovations (BMI) as a fundamental change of the mechanisms and arrangements of how a company creates, delivers and captures value. It translates this definition into a composite innovation indicator that consists of a combination of radical product and radical process innovations, or radical product innovations combined with marketing and organisational innovations. Implementing this definition with empirical data from the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) in Europe, we find that roughly one out of 20 SMEs has introduced a BMI in the three-year period preceding the surveys.04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift
- PublikationKnowledge and technology transfer performance of European universities and research institutions: assessing the influence of institutional by-laws and practices(Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2013) Barjak, Franz; Es-Sadki, Nordine; Arundel, Anthony; Hinze, Sybille; Lottmann, André [in: Translational twists and turns: science as socio-economic endeavour. Proceedings of STI 2013]Several studies have shown that the knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) performance of universities and research institutions can be explained by institutional differences. Some of the factors that influence performance include providing staff incentives and the establishment of a knowledge transfer office (KTO). However, only a few empirical studies have looked at the influence of institutional by-laws and practices on KTT performance, even though they might have strong impacts. We use 2010 and 2011 data for 224 European universities and 48 public research organisations to investigate the effects of KTO characteristics, staff incentives, and policies on three measures of KTT: the number of invention disclosures, patent applications and licenses. Using a negative binomial count model, we find that a written IP policy is correlated with an increase in all three outcomes, although open publication of policies has no effect. Rules on managing conflict are positively correlated with the number of invention disclosures and patent applications. The only incentive for researchers that has a consistent positive effect on all outcome measures is to give inventors a share of the revenues. Non-monetary rewards such as career enhancement or social rewards have no effect.04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift
- PublikationNational cultural diversity of research teams(2009) Barjak, Franz; Robinson, Simon [in: Proceedings of ISSI 2009 - 12th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics]According to social categorization theory diversity has negative effects on group processes as it places a burden on communication and cohesion. From an information processing approach, however, diversity is considered as beneficial for groups broadening the available cognitive resources. The paper compares national cultural diversity of research teams, i.e. to what degree members of research teams come from different countries, across a set of 10 European countries and four academic domains (engineering, natural sciences, biology, and social sciences). It uses different measures of diversity which include species richness, evenness and disparity to different degrees. For all measures we find that the UK and Sweden have high cultural diversities of their research teams, whereas the Czech Republic, Hungary and Italy and at domain level the social sciences have low diversities. We then relate the diversity measures to the teams’ research performance measured as journal publications but at the current level of calculations we fail to find a stable relationship.04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift
- PublikationInternational collaboration, mobility and team diversity in the life sciences: impact on research performance(2007) Barjak, Franz; Robinson, Simon [in: Proceedings of ISSI 2007 - 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics]The combination of knowledge and skills from different backgrounds or research cultures is often considered good for science. This paper describes the extent to which academic research teams in the life sciences draw on knowledge from different research cultures and how this is related to their research performance. We distinguish between international collaboration of research teams from different countries and cultural diversity of research teams resulting from team members with different countries of origin. Our results show that the most successful teams have a moderate level of cultural diversity; in addition, successful teams engage in collaboration activities with teams from other European countries and the US leading to joint publications. These results have implications for research team management and for research policy, in particular in relation to supporting measures for mobile scientists.04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift