The Disclosure of University Research for Societal Demand: A Non-Market Perspective on the "Third Mission"

Abstract

Many nations, universities, and regional governments commit resources to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical knowledge. The emphasis has been on knowledge-based innovation and the economic function of the university in terms of technology transfer, intellectual property, university-industry-government relations, etc. Faculties other than engineering or applied sciences may not be able to recognize opportunities in this linear model of technology transfer. In our opinion, more options for relating demand and supply in terms of innovations can then be explored. In this study, we elaborate on an idea originally developed in the context of the Dutch science shops in the late 1980s: the two Amsterdam universities were questionnaired about keywords and expertise at the level of individual researchers. Using the internet, this experiment was redesigned for questionnairing the academic staff of the Gabriele d'Annunzio University (UdA) in Italy (728 tenured staff). The recall was highest among the humanities (keywords) and social sciences (expertises). On the basis of this data an interface was constructed that allows to build bridges across disciplinary divides and using considerable semantic precision.

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