| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 科技管理研究所 === 97 === The number of SMEs in Taiwan accounts for 97% (2008 SME White Book, 2008), however, their HR resource, R&D level and innovation capability is weaker than those of large corporations. Therefore, SMEs have to take advantage of UI collaboration to improve the weakness.
In recent years, research studies discussed about university and industry collaboration (UI collaboration) are fewer from the firm demand perspective. The government proposes that industrial characteristics indeed impact on the demand of firms’ UI collaboration type.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate SMEs in different industries (service, biochemistry, mechanics, telecommunication, other manufacturing), whose:
1. Differences in demand of UI collaboration
2. Motivation, barrier and benefit of the firms which have conducted UI collaboration
3. Reasons why the firms haven’t conducted UI collaboration
This study used questionnaire and interview as research method. Total 1300 questionnaires were distributed, and the return rate is 25.5%. The questionnaire samples include two parts, one is 682 SMEs which awarded “National Award of Outstanding Small and Medium Enterprises, The Rising Star Award, Taiwan SMEs Innovation Award, and The Business Star-Up Award” by Small and Medium Enterprise Administration, MOEA, and the others are 618 SMEs selected randomly. Besides, 13 SMEs which have conducted UI collaboration were interviewed, to understand the benefits of UI collaboration.
This study finds that the demand of UI collobaration of high tenical level firms includs "expose to advanced technical fields", "increase the chances of new product/service development", "solve the problem of lacking R&D personnel", and "supplement the lack of R&D equipment". Besides, the reasons why firms haven''t conducted UI collaboration are "lack of UI collaboration information", "business operation tends to be conservative due to economic recession", "problems in intellectual property issues", "lack of confidence in cooperating with the acedemia".
The suggestions of this study are the following:
1. Recommendations to the academia:
(1) To cooperate with industrial circles more rigidly.
(2) To coordinate the faculties of school in order to organize the UI collaboration team.
(3) To emphasize on cross-interdisciplinary education.
2. Recommendations to the industrial circles:
(1) To offer more internships.
(2) To give the reasonable feedback to the academia and cultivate the long-term partnership.
(3) To contact with the academia actively.
3. Recommendations to the research institutes:
(1) To release the patents to the industrial circles.
(2) To build multi-trust with the industrial circles within cooperation.
4. Recommendations to the government authorities:
(1) To constitute more enterprise’s demand-oriented university-and-industry-collaboration policies.
(2) To promote the benefits of UI collaboration more.
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