What is it about?
Although knowledge collaboration is generally experienced as a fluid and dynamic activity, we show that it is possible to develop a typology for knowledge collaboration which can explain the role, need and route for the collaboration and its processes.
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Why is it important?
Our study contributes to improved understanding of the relationship between effective collaboration and impact on opportunities for business growth. The typology we have developed may function as a tool to guide knowledge workers in the establishment and assessment of knowledge‐based project ventures, especially such where academic and other knowledge institutions collaborate to create opportunities which benefit entrepreneurship and new business.
Perspectives
"Was It All Worth It. What is there left for me to do in this life. Did I achieve what I had set in my sights." (Queens lyrics ). Did we really achieve what we aimed for this collaboration? What is there left after the collaboration is done? We dare to claim that in the knowledge industry, the majority of collaborations initiatives fail, or at least are not as successful as hoped. As a result, collaboration failure or unsuccess is rarely dwelled upon, and, therefore, collaboration unsuccess is rarely reported by the collaboration teams upon completion. We enjoyed the challenge of learning from what can fail during the different steps of a collaboration scenario.
Dr Johanna Julia Vauterin
Lappeenrannan Teknillinen Yliopisto
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This page is a summary of: A typology of knowledge collaboration, Industry and Higher Education, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0950422216657952.
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