Abstract
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have been identified as one of the key factors for the growth and development of a nation. This is reflected in the vast amount of investment of public funds into research activities among the HEIs by the Malaysia government. Such a move is embraced by both developed and developing nations in the hopes of reaping the benefits in terms of the enrichment of knowledge, development of expertise and human capital and more tangibly in terms of the intellectual properties (IPs) produced by the research activities. Often the IPs would have commercial potential and there are numerous avenues for commercialising such IPs. However, often only small percentages of the RD most are treated as just another academic exercise. Thus, the challenge is driving the researchers in the HEIs to ensure R&D doesn’t end with publication of findings only, but it flows continuously into C – commercialisation, which includes the creation of university spin-out (USO). This study investigates the researchers’ behaviour in terms of conducting research, exploiting the results and ultimately commercialising their innovations.
Highlights
The importance of universities and their research activities have been widely recognised (Candell & Jaffe 1999)
Out of the 218 respondents, 71.5% reported to have conducted research work within the past five years. 23.8% reported to have conducted research work and the output had led to intellectual property rights filing within the past five years
13.3% reported to have conducted research work and the output had been commercialised within the past five years. This distribution of research indicates that almost three-quarters of the surveyed respondents involved in research work within 2006 to 2010 while onequarter did not. Out of those three-quarter active researchers, less than half of their research output had led to Intellectual Property Right (IPR) filing
Summary
The importance of universities and their research activities have been widely recognised (Candell & Jaffe 1999). Universities in general are critical components of national systems of innovation. Being one of the major contributors to the generation and transmission of knowledge within the systems, universities are hubs of discovery and creativity. Ideas can be shared and discussed in an open and tolerant environment. They are centres of excellence where industries can come to for their R&D needs. Universities house expertise in a variety of fields, foster relationships with stakeholders of the regions they locate within, conduct research and training, providing the
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