"Within the last decades, universities are increasingly expected and measured by their direct engagement in collaborations beyond academia. Exploring the potential that lies in university-business collaborations, the present anthology attends to the dilemmas, dualities, and challenges that follow such collaborations, especially in the academic traditions of the social sciences and humanities. Each contribution investigates how the human perspective - a perspective that highlights how complex knowledge and a deep understanding of human everyday life - enriches companies' processes, products, services, and ideas. Some chapters focus on collaborations between researchers and business practitioners, others focus on teaching examples involving students in thecollaborative work with businesses and organisations, and again others contribute with more theoretical considerations. By gathering hands-on experiences, the book provides readers with inspirations, reflections on, and insights into university-business collaborations. This book, therefore, is intended for researchers within the humanities and social sciences, who want to get a deeper understanding of the practice of such collaborations"--
Exploring the potential that lies in university-business collaborations, the present anthology attends to the dilemmas, dualities, and challenges that follow such collaborations, especially in the academic traditions of the social sciences and humanities.
Chapter
1. Introduction
Chapter
2. Provoking dialogue: Ethnographic
examples as bridge-builders in university-industry collaborations
Chapter
3. Becoming-with or not at all: the case of a university-business
collaboration contract
Chapter
4. Performing impact through texts:
Unwrapping the social processes behind an tnstitutional term
Chapter
5.
Questioning the business-humanities divide in media studies: a reformulation
of the administrative-critical distinction in stakeholder collaboration
Chapter
6. Making Difference: An enquiry into what happens when an architect
company acquires humanistic knowledge as a competitive business strategy
Chapter
7. Human-centred research and Open Innovation (OI): How to implement
and facilitate crosscutting collaborations in the built environment
Chapter
8. From position- to issue-driven collaborations between the humanities and
business: The case of Eat it, and save it
Chapter
9. Designing
anthropological impact: How case-based teaching makes a difference
Chapter
10. The AIM method: Bringing teaching, research, and business
together in authentic industry mega-cases
Chapter
11. Differing
expectations in student-industry collaborations: Towards a value-based
framework fostering dialogic ground
Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke is an Associate Professor in Digital Humanities at Roskilde University, Denmark.
Mikka Nielsen is a Medical Anthropologist and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Health Research in the Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Matilde Lykkebo Petersen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Communication at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Lise Tjųrring is an Anthropologist and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
