Getting value for money from your science park

Abstract

Based on 34 semi-structured interviews covering 25 university–industry collaborations (UICs) at science parks attached to Danish and Norwegian universities, this paper focuses on aspects of value creation and how to measure the performance of UICs. The research findings have resulted in a set of relevant performance measures for the UICs that have the potential to become levers of management for the modern-day university seeking to enhance the pay-off from its third core (mission) activities.

Keywords:

• Higher education
• performance measurement
• science parks
• university–industry collaboration
• value creation
• value for money

Notes

* Part of the Horizon 2020 funding scheme is directed at seven ‘societal challenges’, which form challenge based approach to bring together resources and knowledge from different fields, technologies and disciplines, including social sciences and the humanities. This covers activities from research to market with a new focus on innovation-related activities.

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Notes on contributors

Christian Nielsen

Christian Nielsen is Professor of Business Models and Performance Measurement and Director of the Business Model Design Center, Aalborg University, Denmark.