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Course design Aim: knowledge about concepts in network
theory, and being able to apply them, in particular in a context of innovation and alliances
1. Intro2. Network theory and background3. Network methods4. Small world networks5. Business alliances as one example of network
strategy6. Assignment 1: analyzing university-company
networks (ego-centered networks)7. Assignment 2: …
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A Recap: Two Approaches to Network Analysis Complete Networks
The relations of all actors are taking into account
Existing data (archival) Case study (f.i. a family
or this class) Where is the boundary
of the network?
Ego centered network Network from the
perspective of the actor Extension of traditional
survey instruments Random sampling
possible Statistical analysis
possible
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The Assignment:
We analyze what are the barriers hindering collaboration between university researchers and companies from being (more) successful?
With “collaboration” we mean a working arrangement between at least one university researcher and one or more employees of a commercial firm with the intention to develop further an idea or a preliminary product of university researchers so that it can be brought to the market.
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The Assignment
Think of ways in which the ego-centerd network of the researcher may influence
the success of collaboration with a company
Derive two hypotheses. Make use of ideas of Burt's (2001) theory of structural holes or of Coleman's (1988) closure theory.
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The Assignment
Test those hypotheses using the dataset we provide.
SPSS data set “collaboration_2005.sav”:
File contains 150 cases (rows) information about the researcher, his/her
university position, his/her faculty, his/her ego-centered network data, and characteristics of the collaboration.
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The report Structure and content of the report must resemble a scientific article
Introduction Brief discussion of the topic: university-industry collaboration
and social networks. Theory
Present a theoretical framework and derive two hypotheses. Method
Describe the data, measurements, and statistical methods. Results
Describe the networks in detail (e.g., size, density) depending on your theory
Present the results of the analysis, by means of table/picture, and a verbal clarification of the table/picture.
Discussion/Conclusion What do the results say about your theory? Would it make
sense to run other analyses? How could one improve this study? What did we learn?
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Logistics
DEADLINE: Monday, November 3, 11:00 am
WORD-ATTACHMENT (.docx) EMAILBOX Uwe Matzat ([email protected]) and Chris Snijders ([email protected] )
I am available for questions:
IPO 1.32/ [email protected]
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Problem – Theory- Empirical Research
1.) The problem we work on is: The success of collaboration (variable v56-v59b)
2.) Formulate a (ego-centered) social network theory that explains why some researchers have more success in their collaboration with firms than others.
3.) Test the two hypotheses that were developed
in the theory section and present the results.
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The data set
Information about collaborations of 150 Twente University researchers of different disciplines
position of the researcher
v5
21 13,9 13,9 13,9
14 9,3 9,3 23,2
27 17,9 17,9 41,1
13 8,6 8,6 49,7
6 4,0 4,0 53,6
68 45,0 45,0 98,7
2 1,3 1,3 100,0
151 100,0 100,0
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Postdoc
Researcher
Ph.D. student
other, namely...
Total
ValidFrequency Percent Valid Percent
CumulativePercent
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In general collaboration with a commercial company is strongly appealing to me.
v04
40 26,5 26,5 26,5
67 44,4 44,4 70,9
34 22,5 22,5 93,4
10 6,6 6,6 100,0
151 100,0 100,0
completely agree
agree
neutral
disagree
Total
ValidFrequency Percent Valid Percent
CumulativePercent
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Faculty of the researcher
v4
35 23,2 23,2 23,2
57 37,7 37,7 60,9
59 39,1 39,1 100,0
151 100,0 100,0
CTW
EWI
TNW
Total
ValidFrequency Percent Valid Percent
CumulativePercent
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To what extent do you consider the collaboration with the business firm to be successful?
v56
5 3,3 3,4 3,4
23 15,2 15,4 18,8
79 52,3 53,0 71,8
22 14,6 14,8 86,6
20 13,2 13,4 100,0
149 98,7 100,0
2 1,3
151 100,0
2
3
4
5
6
Total
Valid
0Missing
Total
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
Percent
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To what extent are the goals of the collaboration achieved?
v57
5 3,3 3,4 3,4
38 25,2 25,7 29,1
66 43,7 44,6 73,6
14 9,3 9,5 83,1
25 16,6 16,9 100,0
148 98,0 100,0
3 2,0
151 100,0
2
3
4
5
6
Total
Valid
0Missing
Total
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
Percent
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If there would be a possibility to cooperate with this business firm in the future, would you then do this again?
v58
2 1,3 1,4 1,4
6 4,0 4,1 5,4
13 8,6 8,8 14,3
43 28,5 29,3 43,5
83 55,0 56,5 100,0
147 97,4 100,0
4 2,6
151 100,0
1
2
3
4
5
Total
Valid
0Missing
Total
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
Percent
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With hindsight: to what extent has the business firm tried to “take your technology and run”?
v59a
69 45,7 46,9 46,9
33 21,9 22,4 69,4
22 14,6 15,0 84,4
17 11,3 11,6 95,9
6 4,0 4,1 100,0
147 97,4 100,0
4 2,6
151 100,0
1
2
3
4
5
Total
Valid
0Missing
Total
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
Percent
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With hindsight: to what extent has the business firm succeeded in “taking your technology and run”?
v59b
37 24,5 25,0 25,0
19 12,6 12,8 37,8
12 7,9 8,1 45,9
16 10,6 10,8 56,8
5 3,3 3,4 60,1
59 39,1 39,9 100,0
148 98,0 100,0
3 2,0
151 100,0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Total
Valid
0Missing
Total
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
Percent
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Methods of data analysis
multiple linear regression analysis
dependent variables: v56-v59b
think about how to combine a selection of them into one single indicator – depending on your theory
select independent variables:
a) network characteristicsb) control variables
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The data preparation
You only have to work with SPSS!
However, you definitely have to transform the given data set, for example by creating new variables with the “compute” command within SPSS. So a considerable amount of work consists of data recoding and data transformation to compute the appropriate network characteristics that you think are important.
Have a look at the hints for measuring network characteristics on the course website (in the zip file). Don’t take the SPSS commands literally.
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To Do:
Have a look at the data
Understand how to calculate the network characteristics
Re-read the stuff about social network theories
Try it out!
Send the report to me (and Chris Snijders as a ‘backup’) until Nov 3