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How Academe and Business Can Connect

Explore the bridges between academia and business, understand their perspectives, motivations, and tensions in research, and strive for innovative and impactful collaborations to drive progress and mutual benefit.

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How Academe and Business Can Connect

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  1. How Academe and Business Can ConnectRoger ClarkeXamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra Visiting Professor in eCommerce, Uni. of Hong Kong;Cyberspace Law & Policy, U.N.S.W.; and Computer Science, ANU http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/... ... ICEC06-ABC {.html, .ppt}ICEC’06 – Fredericton NB – 15 August 2006

  2. How Academe and Business Can Connect • What does Academe think Academe does? • What would Business like Academe to do? • What are the Bridges?

  3. What Does Academe Think Academe Does? • Develops Deep Knowledge • Accumulates Knowledge by: • basing research on current Theory • extending current Theory • Researches what’s Empirically Researchableor Conducts Experiments that are ‘interesting’ • Achieves Quality through Rigour • Gets Rewarded for Publications whose Rigour has been Confirmed

  4. Theory • Formal Theory: • A coherent group of general propositions that enable a systematic description of Phenomena within a particular Domain (and maybe explanation, even prediction) • As distinct from Ad Hoc Theory: • A conjectural, as-yet-untested description

  5. What Would Business Like Academe To Do? • Address Current Topicswhether or not Empirically Researchableand whether or not they’re ‘interesting’ • Pursue Instrumentalist Research(rather than conventional Pure or Applied) • Stimulate Innovation • Achieve Quality through a Balancebetween Relevance against Rigour • Get Rewarded for Work whose Relevance has been Confirmed

  6. Alternative Motivations for Research • ‘Pure Research’ “because it’s there” contribute to abstract, theoretical understanding • ‘Applied Research’ “I have a hammer, so go and find me a nail” • ‘Instrumentalist Research’ “I have a problem, so go and find me a solution”

  7. An Eternal Tension in ResearchRelevance vs. Rigour • Associations with Rigour • Independence, through Pure Research Motivation • Outcomes that are Explanatory • Quantitative Data / Ratio Scales / Stat’l Analysis • Determinable Causal Relationships • Associations with Relevance • Motivation that is Instrumental, or Applied • Outcomes that are ‘Predictive’ and Normative • Whatever Data is Collectible • Complex Interdependencies

  8. So: What are the Bridges? • Interact To convert misunderstanding to appreciation • Resource To encourage business-relevant research • Reward To compete with conventional academic rewards, and hence to shape them

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