چکیده:
Nowadays, the changes in the dominant economic models, the emergence of knowledge-based economy and the lack of research budgets have caused the academic and research centers to pay attention to the commercialization of research findings. Although, there exist some studies pertaining to this topic, most of them have dealt with natural sciences rather than humanities and soft technology. To bridge this gap, the current study tries to identify and overcome the barriers to commercialization of research findings in humanities using a contextual theory and an interpretive approach. The study uses qualitative methods in three steps. In the first step, previous studies related to this topic are scrutinized and several barriers to research commercialization are extracted. Then, in the second step, Delphi method is utilized to examine the extent of the influence of each barrier and identify more items. Finally, grounded theory is used to present a conceptual framework for the barriers to research commercialization in humanities. According to the findings, the most important barriers are related to policymaking, legal rights, resources, infrastructure, intrinsic value of humanities, technological nature of humanities, and behavior of the actors.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Electronic Business Research Group, Information Technology Research Department, Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IranDoc), Tehran, Iran (Received: January 21, 2018; Revised: June 10, 2018; Accepted: June 20, 2018) Abstract Nowadays, the changes in the dominant economic models, the emergence of knowledge-based economy and the lack of research budgets have caused the academic and research centers to pay attention to the commercialization of research findings.
To bridge this gap, the current study tries to identify and overcome the barriers to commercialization of research findings in humanities using a contextual theory and an interpretive approach.
To bridge this theoretical gap, the current study tried to identify and analyze the barriers and challenges of research commercialization in humanities in Iran in the form a contextual theory in order to contribute to overcoming these barriers.
Data Analysis Delphi rounds and using grounded theory are explained for developing a conceptual model for the barriers on the way of commercializing research in humanities.
The lack of awareness of the industry and the public about the importance of the humanities in society is considered as the other barriers to commercialization of research findings.
Within two Delphi rounds, the checklist was given to a panel of 15 experts in the field of humanities in order to elicit their viewpoints on research commercialization barriers in the Iranian context.
, 2003), and lack of commercialization units or technology transfer offices in universities and research centers (De Baker & Welgross, 2005; Locket & Wright, 2005; Siegel & Phan, 2005) were identified as the structural barriers.