University-Industry Partnerships in MIT, Cambridge, and Tokyo : Storytelling Across Boundaries

ISBN-13: 9780415947039 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 273 str.

Sachi Hatakenaka

Opis

The purpose of this study is to identify the nature of change taking place in university-industry partnerships, to understand the underlying factors that influence that change, and to explore the underlying process of change.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Prologue Part I: Introduction 1.The Problem Part II: The Contexts 2. National contexts 3. Organizational contexts Part III: The Three Cases 4. The MIT way 5. The Cambridge Phenomenon 6. The Tokyo Story Part IV: Findings and Conclusions 7. Summarizing the nature of change 8. Shaping change: external and internal boundaries 9. Dynamics of change: the role of dialectics and storytelling 10. Conclusions Appendix I: Tables Appendix II: Social construction of a dissertation References Notes

O autorze

Sachi Hatakenaka