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    Barriers affecting co-founders’ dynamic in university symbiosis program
    (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2020) Lim, Woei Yu
    Commercialization of university’s research is able to boost national economy, offering jobs opportunities, goods and services to society. However, the state of commercialization in Malaysia is less than satisfactory. Malaysian government is trying to improve the commercialization by launching of University Symbiosis Program i.e., a type of university-industry collaborative commercialization that requires technopreneurs (i.e., Chief Executive Officers) and academic researchers (i.e., main inventors) working together to commercialize universities technologies through formation of Symbiosis Companies. The commercialization in the program is not easy since technopreneurs are young graduates. University Symbiosis Program is a unique program in which few studies in the past have investigated the program, particularly barriers affecting the program. Therefore, this study aims to explore the barriers that could affect the program. It uses qualitative method conducted over two phases of data collection. The first phase of data collection involved preliminary interviews and personal communications with officers in charge of University Symbiosis Program to understand barriers affecting the program. In the second phase, a total of 18 semi-structured interviews were conducted with technopreneurs and academic researchers who were responsible to form and incubate Symbiosis Companies. Thematic analysis disclosed six barriers during formation stage of Symbiosis Companies i.e., culture, dedication, competency, management of government funding, expectation and mutual trust. Meanwhile, five barriers during incubation stage i.e., competency, culture, dedication, expectation and mutual trust. Improvements in the pertinent stages of Symbiosis Companies were also proposed by using thematic analysis. Moreover, quasi-statistical analysis revealed that there is no difference between the barriers during formation and incubation stages of Symbiosis Companies faced by technopreneurs and academic researchers. Finally, a comprehensive framework of barriers affecting University Symbiosis Program was proposed with the contribution to extend the body of knowledge and literature on university-industry collaborative commercialization, as well as, provide implications for policy makers, technopreneurs and academic researchers to facilitate the commercialization in University Symbiosis Program, which in turn improve Malaysian commercialization state.
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    University-industry collaboration in development research at research university in Malaysia
    (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2019) Ramli, Mohamad Faizal
    In Malaysia, the level of university-industry collaboration in general is still low. Besides, the barriers during collaboration lead to difficulties for the researchers to meet project aims and objectives. This study aims to propose a framework for effective university-industry R&D collaboration, particularly during the development research stage in Malaysia. Therefore this study is conducted to identify the types of barriers in university-industry collaboration during development research stage and to determine the relationship among the different barriers toward success. Besides that, this study also identifies significant differences between university and industry success level in such collaboration during development research stage. The research was conducted in sequential approach of quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative research method applied survey questionnaire involving 99 respondents while qualitative research applied semi-structured interviews with 8 project leaders in order to provide additional information and support the results generated in quantitative study. The respondents consist of university and industrial researchers who were involved in MOSTI‘s TechnoFund projects conducted during 2006-2013. The quantitative data was analysed through SPSS 16.0 and SmartPLS 3.2.1 while qualitative data was analysed through content analysis. The empirical evidence showed that researchers faced more orientation related barriers (ORB) followed by intellectual property related barriers (IPRB), time related barriers (TRB) and operational related barriers (OPRB). In addition, the IPRB has significant negative relationship with process related criteria (PRC). Management skills (MS) have significant negative relationship with TRB meanwhile reward (RWD) has significant negative relationship with ORB. However, MS and RWD have significant positive relationship with the level of success. Results also indicated that there are significant differences in perception between university and industrial researchers on the level of success for their collaboration project. Drawing upon these findings, this study offers several important theoretical and practical implications. This study contributes to the university-industry collaboration literature, opens up new area for future research in university-industry collaboration fields and provides guidelines or ideas to help the policy makers, funder (MOSTI) and government to improve the collaboration between university and industry particularly during development research stage in Malaysia.