Cecilia Rikap et Hugo Harari-Kermadec “Motivations for collaborating with industry: has public policy influenced new academics in Argentina?” Studies in Higher education, 2019

Résumé : Quels sont les effets du financement par appel à projet de la recherche, avec une priorité pour les collaborations avec l’industrie et le transfert technologique ? A partir d’une enquête par questionnaire auprès des doctorants et post-doctorants argentins, nous montrons une importante hétérogénéité des situations, disciplinaire et géographique. Le financement direct des collaborations universités-entreprises semble produire peu d’effets, ces collaborations étant plus efficacement induites par l’orientation des appels à projets vers certains thèmes stratégiques définis par le ministère des sciences et technologies.  

Abstract: Between 2005 and 2015 a series of science, technology and innovation policies were deployed in Argentina among which academic research collaborations with industry was particularly fostered. This paper studies the effect of those policies on newer researchers, defined as those with PhD or postdoctoral scholarships, looking at their motivations to collaborate and, to some extent, at their actual collaborations with Industry. Our hypothesis is that those policies had a positive effect on young academics’ perception of collaborations with industry, now conceived as a dimension of their job, and also on actual collaborations. To conduct our study, we used an original database constructed from an online survey answered by more than 600 newer researchers. Empirical results partly confirm our hypothesis: a direct policy encouraging collaborations by providing collaborative grants was not associated with actual collaborations, while orienting research towards strategic areas – defined by the Science and Technology Ministry- is.

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