La transferencia del conocimiento dentro de las spin-offs universitarias
- Autores: Assia Gouza
- Directores de la Tesis: Carlos Guallarte Nuez (dir. tes.), Xavier Llinàs Audet (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2016
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Montserrat Sansalvadó Tribó (presid.), Joan Mundet Hiern (secret.), Joan Lluís Capelleras i Segura (voc.)
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
The knowledge transfer in traditional enterprises has been deeply studied, although there are no articles to be treated within the university spin-off companies, which often operate in dynamic environments. In this paper we are going to consider the knowledge transfer within the university spin-offs is of great importance because the value of these companies is not so much conditioned by their investment in assets but knowledge transfer explicit and tacit capital human, which is a key element in creating a competitive advantage. The benefits of such knowledge transfer within university spin-offs can always be achieved as the process develops effectively and efficiently. This has generated a great academic and professional interest in observing the factors that affect the success of the knowledge transfer. The main objective of this thesis is to study how the process of knowledge transfer takes place within the university spin-offs (facilitators and barriers), especially how the flow of knowledge of the main founders, who remain teachers in the university and ¡ shareholders in the company to employees included. Analytically speaking, we have been contemplated the most representative studies on the knowledge transfer, trying to identify; and classify the factors that determine the knowledge transfer in university spin-offs. Thus, we selected five groups of variables, defined as proposed by Szulanski (1996; 2000): characteristics of the knowledge ransferred, of the source, of the recipient, characteristics of knowledge, characteristics of the context and the media. As the aim of the research is to explore, explain and understand what the determinants of knowledge transfer within university spin-offs, this research was based on a qualitative case study design, using as units of analysis tour cases studied in four companies spin-offs located in Barcelona: two of the UAB and two the UPC. A cross case study results, we can summarize the main findings of this research. Following the analysis of the cases both individually and cross case was possible to detect the facilitators and barriers that influence the process of the explicit and tacit knowledge transfer. The main conclusions of this thesis are as follows: facilitators from the source to the receiver, such as the motivation of the source, reliability, trust, similar studies, commitment, simplicity, prior experience, the codification and the little time available and the organizational distance are the barriers. Instead, management style, organizational culture, motivation of the recipient, similar studies, self-learning, teaching ability and absorption capacity are the facilitators of knowledge transfer to the receiver and the knowledge complexity is this barrier. Finally, for the spin-off companies successfully make the process of transferring its explicit and tacit knowledge, requiring instruments of formal and informal communication that allow them too quickly and efficiently share knowledge. The fact that the sources of knowledge of spin-offs are university professors and lack of availability of time negatively affects the process of knowledge transfer. So the impact of information and communications technology in this process is very important. Therefore, although it facilitates the transfer of knowledge cannot replace direct face to face, which is a prerequisite for the successful tacit knowledge transfer.
