Motivations for collaborating with industry: has public policy influenced new academics in Argentina?

RIKAP, CECILIA; HARARI-KERMADEC, HUGO

Studies in Higher Education

Taylor & Francis

Año: 2019 p. 1 - 12

0307-5079

Between 2005 and 2015 a series of science, technologyand innovation policies were deployed in Argentina among which academicresearch collaborations with industry was particularly fostered. This paperstudies the effect of those policies on newer researchers, defined as thosewith PhD or postdoctoral scholarships, looking at their motivations tocollaborate and, to some extent, at their actual collaborations with Industry. Ourhypothesis is that those policies had a positive effect on young academics? perceptionof collaborations with industry, now conceived as a dimension of their job, andalso on actual collaborations. To conduct our study, we used an originaldatabase constructed from an online survey answered by more than 600 newerresearchers. Empirical results partly confirm our hypothesis: a direct policyencouraging collaborations by providing collaborative grants was not associatedwith actual collaborations, while orienting research towards strategic areas?defined by the Science and Technology Ministry- is.