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The Disclosure of University Research for Societal Demand: 
A Non-Market Perspective on the "Third Mission"

Michelina Venditti, Emanuela Reale, and Loet Leydesdorff

Many nations, universities, and regional governments commit resources to
promote the dissemination of scientific and technical knowledge. The
emphasis has been on knowledge-based innovation and the economic function of
the university in terms of technology transfer, intellectual property,
university-industry-government relations, etc. Faculties other than
engineering or applied sciences may not be able to recognize opportunities
in this "linear model" of technology transfer. In our opinion, more options
for relating demand and supply in terms of innovations can then be explored.


In this study, we elaborate on an idea originally developed in the context
of the Dutch science shops in the late 1980s: the two Amsterdam universities
were questionnaired about keywords and expertise at the level of individual
researchers. Using the internet, this experiment was redesigned for
questionnairing the academic staff of the Gabriele d'Annunzio University
(UdA) in Italy (728 tenured staff). The recall was highest among the
humanities (keywords) and social sciences (expertises). On the basis of this
data an interface was constructed that allows to build bridges across
disciplinary divides and using considerable semantic precision. 

pdf available from http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5684 

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Loet Leydesdorff 
Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam.
Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111
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Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of
Sussex; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en  

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