Ali Biranvand; Ahmad Shabani; Mazieh Marefvand; Saeid Mazloumian
Abstract
Background and Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify and prioritize factors affecting the commercialization of research results in Isfahan university.Methodology: This study firstly identifies the factors affecting knowledge commercialization in previous research through a qualitative ...
Read More
Background and Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify and prioritize factors affecting the commercialization of research results in Isfahan university.Methodology: This study firstly identifies the factors affecting knowledge commercialization in previous research through a qualitative approach and confirmatory factor analysis method. The statistical population of the study consisted of 262 faculty members, staff and postgraduate students of Isfahan University in the academic year of 2019who commercialized their research results or wanted to commercialize but failed and were familiar with the business process of the research results. In this study, descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation were used to calculate experts 'views on knowledge commercialization indices and Kendall's coefficient of correlation was used to determine the degree of unity of experts' opinion. Also, AHP hierarchical analysis technique was used to prioritize the factors.Findings: Among the three factors under consideration, contextual factors with a weight of 0.456, content factors with a weight of 0.339, and structural factors with a weight of 0.222 were ranked in the first to third priorities of factors influencing knowledge commercialization, respectively.Discussion: Considering the existence of such problems, it is necessary to design and implement the patent information registration and transfer system in accordance with intellectual property laws at Isfahan University.
Ali Biranvand; Ahmad Shabani; Asefeh Asemi; Mozafar cheshmaeh Sohrabi
Abstract
Background and Objectives: Knowledge commercialization is a trend that a university can transfer the results of own members' research to the market to make capital. The point to be taken into account in this process is to identify and prioritize the factors contributing to the process of knowledge commercialization. ...
Read More
Background and Objectives: Knowledge commercialization is a trend that a university can transfer the results of own members' research to the market to make capital. The point to be taken into account in this process is to identify and prioritize the factors contributing to the process of knowledge commercialization. It must be noted that identifying influential factors allows managers and decision makers to make decisions and determine commercialization policies. Accordingly, this research tries to identify and prioritize the factors affecting the commercialization of research results. Identifying the factors influencing the knowledge commercialization allows researchers and scholars to detect the possible barriers and anticipate removing them. Methodology: This research used qualitative approach and confirmatory factor analysis method to identify the items influencing knowledge commercialization in previous researches through library studies, then using Delphi method, it sought the opinions of knowledge commercialization experts about the identified factors in the University of Isfahan. The samples consisted of 262 faculty members and graduated students of Isfahan University in the academic year of 2018-19 who have commercialized the results of their research or planned to commercialize but failed and also were familiar with the process of knowledge commercialization. In this research, descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation were run to calculate the opinions of experts on the indicators of knowledge commercialization. Furthermore, Kendall's coefficient of concordance (W) was used to determine the degree of unity in experts' opinions. Also, to prioritize the factors, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used. Findings: Among the three factors under study, background factors with a weight of 0.456, content factors with a weight of 0.339, and structural factors with a weight of 0.226 ranked the first to third priorities, respectively as the factors affecting knowledge commercialization. Applying fuzzy AHP, the sub-criteria for each of the main factors were compared as a pair. Defuzzyfication results of structural sub-criteria show that the "financial and information resources" with a weight of 0.359, "hard capabilities, processes, technology, and capabilities" with a weight of 0.343, and the "networking strategic links" with a weight of 0.298 were ranked first to third, respectively. Moreover, Defuzzyfication results of the content sub-criteria show that "knowledge base and research quality" with the weight of 0.507, "soft capabilities; human and marketing skills" with a weight of 0.301, and "internal management of the organization" with the weight of 0.192 were ranked first to third, respectively. Identifying the ultimate priority of indicators affecting the knowledge commercialization with the help of pairwise comparison showed that among the indicators related to the sub-criteria of financial and information resources, the index of "providing the required financial resources" with a weight of 0.577 is the most important one. Among the indicators of strategic links, the index of "establishing strategic relations between the university and industry" with a weight of 0.564 is in the first priority. Also, of the five indicators related to the sub-criterion of hard capabilities, the index of "creating a center / institution of commercialization" with a weight of 0.245 is the first priority. Among the four indicators of internal management, the index of "strengthening and promoting the culture of commercialization at universities" with a weight of 0.307 is the first priority. Furthermore, a pair comparison of the innovative infrastructure sub-criteria revealed that the "communication infrastructure" index with a weight of 0.429 is the first priority. The fuzzy values related to the sub-criteria of the political and legal environment confirm that the index of "commercial support laws and regulations" with a weight of 0.548 is the first priority. Among the four indicators related to the sub-criteria of "technical, economic and market environment", the index of "market needs and demand for research results" is in the first priority. Discussion: One of the obstacles to knowledge commercialization at the University of Isfahan is the lack of communication infrastructure to organize the results of academic research and provide it to related industries for exploitation. Lack of knowledge about academic researchers and the needs of the industrial sector as well as inability to communicate effectively with the industrial sector are the factors that lead to a failure in the knowledge commercialization. Obviously, the connection between university and industry will be effective in conveying the results of academic research. On the other hand, lack of information network for registering ideas, patent and research results in the Deputy of Research and communication with industry at the University of Isfahan has caused the owners of ideas and inventors to face a bulk of obstacles to transfer research results or register their ideas. The lack of supportive policies in the field of intellectual property ownership is also of the concerns in this respect. Because the lack of guarantee in the protection of intellectual property rights lead to the transfer of academic research results through the bases other than the academic ones and the role of universities in this regard be overlooked. Given the existence and occurrence of such problems, it seems necessary to design and use the information system for registering and transferring inventions by considering the laws of intellectual property owners at the University of Isfahan.
Ali Biranvand; Ahmad Shaabani; Morteza Mohammadi Ostani
Abstract
Purpose: The present paper aims to investigate factors affecting knowledge-sharing among Fars Province public libraries’ librarians in terms of combina-tion of models Social Exchange and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and introducing a model of predicting their behavior.Research Methodology: ...
Read More
Purpose: The present paper aims to investigate factors affecting knowledge-sharing among Fars Province public libraries’ librarians in terms of combina-tion of models Social Exchange and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and introducing a model of predicting their behavior.Research Methodology: The research is of practical type, and questionnaire has been used as the data gathering tool. Content validity has been used in order to determine the measurement tool validity and Lisrel software pack-age has been used for data analysis. The statistical population of the research includes 180 librarians working in Fars Province’s public libraries and select-ed using stratified random sampling method.Results revealed that most of variable model Social Exchange and Technology Acceptance Model on knowledge-sharing are effect and a casual relationship. Education and consultation programs improve employees’ performance.These should be designed based on employees’ ability and type of activity. The technology-job proportionality provides the opportunity to make more use of a technology thus improving the user’s performance. Existence of mutual trust between the employees and the organization, on the other hand, causes both sides to tend more to make knowledge-sharing. Creation of positive mental thinking in employees’ minds has improved their mentality towards their activities and complexities of their use of knowledge-sharing system, at the same time, increasing job effectiveness and speed of doing duties. Conclusion: Considering the importance of knowledge-sharing as the most fundamental function and the most important challenge of knowledge man-agement, the current work presents a casual model for predicting the factors affecting knowledge-sharing in public libraries.
