Imperial College London
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ProfessorMarkusPerkmann

Business School

Vice-Dean (Research and Faculty) for the Business School
 
 
 
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288Business School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Perkmann:2015:10.1016/j.respol.2014.12.006,
author = {Perkmann, M and Schildt, H},
doi = {10.1016/j.respol.2014.12.006},
journal = {Research Policy},
pages = {1133--1143},
title = {Open data partnerships between firms and universities: The role of boundary organizations},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.12.006},
volume = {44},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Science-intensive firms are experimenting with ‘open data’ initiatives, involving collaboration with academic scientists whereby all results are published with no restriction. Firms seeking to benefit from open data face two key challenges: revealing R&D problems may leak valuable information to competitors, and academic scientists may lack motivation to address problems posed by firms. We explore how firms overcome these challenges through an inductive study of the Structural Genomics Consortium. We find that the operation of the consortium as a boundary organization provided two core mechanisms to address the above challenges. First, through mediated revealing, the boundary organization allowed firms to disclose R&D problems while minimizing adverse competitive consequences. Second, by enabling multiple goals the boundary organization increased the attractiveness of industry-informed agendas for academic scientists. We work our results into a grounded model of boundary organizations as a vehicle for open data initiatives. Our study contributes to research on public-private research partnerships, knowledge revealing and boundary organizations.
AU  - Perkmann,M
AU  - Schildt,H
DO  - 10.1016/j.respol.2014.12.006
EP  - 1143
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 0048-7333
SP  - 1133
TI  - Open data partnerships between firms and universities: The role of boundary organizations
T2  - Research Policy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.12.006
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733314002248/pdfft?md5=cb6552dbcdd3eff123da567d199964c5&pid=1-s2.0-S0048733314002248-main.pdf
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/19450
VL  - 44
ER  -
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