The Changing Governance of Academic Innovation in Taiwan: A Preliminary Post-STBL Review

[[abstract]]In the rise of mode 2 knowledge production, the new governance allowing universities to facilitate knowledge flow into new ideas and sources of industrial innovation becomes imperative. This paper preliminarily examines how Taiwanese higher education institutions (HEIs) responded to the new “scientific-economic” governance that emerged in the post Science Technology Basic Law era. Four major dimensions of academic innovation are investigated, namely: institutional innovation, organizational innovation, commercial innovation and new university-industry partnerships. Through a postal questionnaire survey of all HEIs in Taiwan, this study reveals that the new governance of academic innovation has gradually stimulated the university’s propensity to intellectual property protection and exploitation, and industrial research partnerships in the preliminary post-STBL period. Vulnerable groups of HEIs in academic innovation activities are identified. However, cognitive failure of academic faculty and cooperation barriers among research partners still prevail. In order to fully materialize academic knowledge, a social innovation is needed.[[fileno]]2070308010003[[department]]科技管理研究