Borah, Dhruba 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8125-2549, Malik, Khaleel and Massini, Silvia
(2019)
Are engineering graduates ready for R&D jobs in emerging countries?Teaching-focused industry-academia collaboration strategies.
Research Policy, 48 (9).
p. 103837.
Abstract
Most Engineering and Technology (E&T) graduates in emerging countries are not educated to the same quality level as E&T graduates in advanced countries, and this may require firms to make significant on-the-job training investments to prepare these graduates for R&D positions. In this paper, we present research findings from a study of 10 firms located in India (both multinationals and local firms), through 65 interviews and extensive secondary data, to establish how these firms form teaching-focused collaborations with universities to train students with the pre-requisite skills necessary for R&D operations while simultaneously reducing on-the-job training investment. We suggest the viability of teaching-focused industry-academia (I-A) collaborations as a talent recruitment strategy in emerging countries. We also demonstrate the potential of such collaborations to provide an alternative to the traditional graduate recruitment and development model: ‘on-the-job training’. Through the identification of different forms of teaching-focused I-A collaborations aimed at enhancing both theoretical knowledge and industry and firm-specific practical and applied skills in graduates, along with their associated drivers and challenges, this paper strengthens a much-neglected dimension of the I-A collaboration literature: the role of collaborative activities for teaching between industry and university.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2019 07:55 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:28 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.respol.2019.103837 |
| Open Access URL: | https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0048733... |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3052733 |
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