Academic dual-employment as a means of knowledge-exchange? The case of Germany
- Michael Hoelscher
In recent years, knowledge exchange (KE) and, more generally, the Third Mission have gained in importance for HEI. Consequently, research has focused on different formal and informal KE activities in order to extend the understanding of the antecedents and processes of KE. Literature indicates that researchers’ professional experience outside academia may positively impact KE, although evidence has been sparse until now. By comparing professors with and without cross-employment, this paper aims to extend the understanding of the relationship between institutionalised and non-institutionalised KE activities. The results, based on one of the most comprehensive quantitative surveys of German professors’ KE engagement, indicate that cross-employment is positively associated with KE and, furthermore, appears to moderate the influence of single factors. The differences between the two groups are explored by utilising multilinear regression analysis and multi-group structural equation modelling.
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Michael Hoelscher is Professor of Higher Education and Science Management at the University of Speyer, Germany. He studied Sociology and Cultural Sciences at the Universities of Bremen and Leipzig, got his PhD from the Free University of Berlin (2005) and his habilitation from the University of Heidelberg (2014). He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Higher Education Research (HoF Halle-Wittenberg) and stayed at the University of Oxford as a Postdoc for two years. His main research interests are comparisons of higher education systems, (quantitative) comparative methods, cultural and economic sociology and globalization processes as well as creative cities. Recent publications include “Varieties of academic capitalism” (2016, Wiesbaden: Springer), “A Methodological Framework for Measuring Social Innovation”. Historical Social Research 40 (2015), 3: 48-78 (with Eva Bund, Ulrike Gerhard & Georg Mildenberger) and “Potential and Problems of Existing Creativity and Innovation Indices”. Creativity Research Journal 27 (2015), 1: 1-15 (with Julia Schubert).