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

by Hatakenaka,Sachi

• ISBN13: 9780415947039
• ISBN10: 0415947030
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-12
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

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. Three in-depth case studies are considered, that of MIT, Cambridge University, and Tokyo University, to compare their experiences in developing new types of university-industry relationships. Hatakenaka argues that internal and external organizational boundaries have influenced the evolution of the new types of relationships, and that the three universities have defined these boundaries differently.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Prologue	xiii
Part I: Introduction	1	(14)
The Problem	3	(12)
Part II: The Contexts	15	(74)
National Contexts	17	(34)
Organizational Contexts	51	(38)
Part III: The Three Cases	89	(90)
The MIT Way	91	(28)
The Cambridge Phenomenon	119	(28)
The Tokyo Story	147	(32)
Part IV: Findings and Conclusions	179	(44)
Summarizing the Nature of Change	181	(4)
Shaping Change: External and Internal Boundaries	185	(14)
Dynamics of Change: the Role of Dialectics and Storytelling	199	(10)
Conclusions	209	(14)
Appendices	223	(24)
Appendix I: Tables	225	(6)
Appendix II: Social Construction of a Dissertation	231	(16)
Notes	247	(8)
References	255	(12)
Index	267