FACTORS INFLUENCING THE OUTCOMES OF COMMERCIALLY-ORIENTED ACADEMIC-INDUSTRY ENTREPRENEURIAL COLLABORATIONS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51200/mjbe.v10i2.4816Keywords:
academicians, academic-industry entrepreneurial collaborations, private university, entrepreneurial engagementAbstract
This study seeks to analyse the experience of academicians from foreign branch campuses and private universities in Malaysia and point out the multi-level factors that influence the outcomes of commercially-oriented academic-industry entrepreneurial collaborations. This study is cross-sectional and follows an explanatory factor analysis research design. Data was collected from 510 academics from 36 foreign branch campus universities and private universities using a simple random probability sampling method. First, only two multi-level factors, ‘age’ and ‘readiness to collaborate,’ are significant when testing the relationship between cross-functional engagement and the performance factor ‘effective knowledge transfer’. Second, only two multi-level factors, 'age' and 'readiness to collaborate’, are significant when testing the relationship between cross-functional engagement and the performance factor ‘effective knowledge transfer’. It categorises the various types of commercially-oriented academic-industry collaboration activities. Secondly, it illustrates the consequences of each kind of commercially-oriented academic-industry collaboration. Lastly, it measures the performance of commercially-oriented academic-industry collaboration against the performance variables in developing nations like Malaysia.
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