Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>What is the impact of different types of knowledge transfer activities on the number and quality of business-science interactions? Motivated by the “European Paradox” (top-notch academic research but much weaker business-science links), this trial will test the impact of two interventions to raise awareness of academic research and connect it to businesses. 300 researchers will be allocated into 3 groups, one group which gets promoted through an online platform that showcases their business-relevant academic research and a second that gets promoted through an online platform and active offline promotions in businesses, such as meetings, presentations and business R&D management. The third group serves as a control group. The RCT will test if researchers receiving passive or active support increase the number and the quality of their business-science interactions (such as contract research, joint research, consultancy, etc.).</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://www.innovationgrowthlab.org/projects/business-science-links-and-technology-transfer Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Motivated by the “European Paradox” (top-notch academic research but much weaker business-science links), this trial will test the impact of two interventions to raise awareness of academic research and connect it to businesses. The RCT will test if researchers receiving passive or active support increase the number and the quality of their business-science interactions (such as contract research, joint research, consultancy, etc.). Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Banal-Estañol, A., Pérez-Castrillo, D., Losa, V. (forthcoming). 'Promoting Academic Research into Business Applications and Innovation/Business-science links and technology transfer'. Ongoing research. Citation for use in academic references
