Utilising science–business relations in dissertations developed at universities
Utilising science–business relations in dissertations developed at universities

Author(s): Arif Erkol, Jan Fazlagić
Subject(s): Economy, Education, Business Economy / Management, Micro-Economics, Higher Education , Marketing / Advertising, Business Ethics, Socio-Economic Research, Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu
Keywords: applicability of diploma theses;science-business relations;cooperation with the socio-economic environment (OSG);commercialization of research;
Summary/Abstract: This article presents theoretical background based on research results that is related to the issue of creating applied diploma theses at universities in Poland. On the one hand, this issue is very important for improving the quality of higher education and broadly understood innovation of the economy, and on the other hand, it is still treated as a set of expectations and demands towards universities. The aim of the paper is to identify and investigate the possibilities of increasing the applicability of dissertations developed in higher education institutions. The main research question was: “How to increase the applicability of diploma theses developed by its students?”. The applicability of diploma theses developed by its students is positioned here as one of the tenets of the Third Mission (TM) in universities. The paper aims to make a contribution to the efforts aimed at explaining the engagement of universities in the TM implementation. The TMdrivenapproach to operating a university represents a radical (and often contested by academics) departure from their traditional ‘ivory tower’ stance in which teaching and research have always been treated as ends in themselves (Nakwa & Zawdie, 2016). The authors used the workshop method to achieve this aim. Workshops are becoming a popular research tool in qualitative research where researchers can gather a group of participants who under the instructions of a facilitator can discuss a specific subject. The authors participated as facilitators in a series of workshops at the University of Warsaw attended by the academic staff who were dissertations supervisors. The study also presents suggestions and recommendations for thesis supervisors in the field of increasing the applicability of research results published in theses. The article contains the results of a survey conducted among participants of a training and consulting project carriedout at the University of Warsaw. The project aimed to increase the applicability of diploma theses developed by its students.

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