Engages in networks with universities (higher education institutions, HEIs) and can access university knowledge (e.g., basic university research) 4.
The academic firm has an interest to engage in networks with universities (higher education institutions) or other academic research institutions, driven out of a desire to access university knowledge (for example, basic university research).
University research, in a traditional understanding and in reference to universities in the sciences, focuses on basic research, often framed within a matrix of academic disciplines, and without a particular interest in the practical use of knowledge and innovation.
It is a basic tenet of university research: Economists conduct joint studies, chemists join forces in the laboratory, political scientists share ideas about other cultures — but rarely do the researchers cross disciplinary lines.
Whole classes of drugs that have changed health in this country for the better -- like statins, which lower cholesterol -- began with basic scientific research in a university lab.
We attribute the improvement to synergies between the basic biological research in the comprehensive university and the more practical research undertaken in medical schools.
The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research's (BMBF's) ConNeCat initiative is supposed to close the gap between industrial R&D and basic research in universities and research institutes.
"Especially alarming" are signs of a "de-emphasis" on basic research by American industry, such as drops in both the number of peer-reviewed journal articles by industrial scientists and "the industry share of support for basic research in universities and colleges".
"An interesting finding occurs in basic research in universities, and there's an expectation that it would be picked up by the pharmaceutical industry who will then transform it to a product that is available for doctors.
The linear model of innovation asserts that first, there is basic research in university context; gradually, this university research will diffuse out into society and the economy.
The high interest level in clinical trials seen in physicians is reassuring, although it has been thought that university researchers in Japan prefer basic research to clinical studies [ 28].
