Organizing the 'productive transformation of knowledge': linking university and industry in traditional manufacturing areas

The article aims at underlining the role played by extra-academic and autonomous organizations strongly connected with university institutions and researchers in producing, acquiring, transferring and transforming knowledge. The study examines a particular Italian case, the Politecnico Calzaturiero,...

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Veröffentlicht in:Tertiary education and management Jg. 22; H. 1; S. 19 - 35
Hauptverfasser: Balduzzi, Giacomo, Rostan, Michele
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Dordrecht Routledge 02.01.2016
Springer Netherlands
Schlagworte:
Administration
Case Studies
Education
Foreign Countries
Institutional Mission
International and Comparative Education
Italy
Management
Manufacturing
Organization and Leadership
Organizations (Groups)
Political Science
productive transformation of knowledge
Role
School Business Relationship
Technology Transfer
third mission
Universities
university-industry relationships
Italy
third mission
technology transfer
university—industry relationships
productive transformation of knowledge
ISSN:1358-3883, 1573-1936
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Zusammenfassung:The article aims at underlining the role played by extra-academic and autonomous organizations strongly connected with university institutions and researchers in producing, acquiring, transferring and transforming knowledge. The study examines a particular Italian case, the Politecnico Calzaturiero, a private institution providing technical training and research services operating in North-eastern Italy. The analysis of this experience suggests that, in traditional manufacturing areas, organizations playing a key role in managing the 'productive transformation of knowledge' may be neither universities nor firms. 'Special organizations', like the one discussed in this article, are deeply embedded in their economic and institutional environment, are closely interconnected within a dense and extended network of various actors, engage in complex and time-consuming processes, and can be understood as organizational relé, that is entities which are able to connect structures that are usually not connected. For these reasons, they represent an underestimated resource for universities' third mission and its management.
ISSN:1358-3883
1573-1936
DOI:10.1080/13583883.2015.1120340