Challenges in Implementing a University-Based Innovation Search Engine

Arman Arzani, Marcus Handte, Pedro José Marrón

2023

Abstract

In universities, technology transfer plays an important role in the joint development and dissemination of knowledge as a product that benefits society through innovation. In order to facilitate knowledge transfer, many universities hire innovation coaches that employ a scouting process to identify faculty members and students who possess the requisite knowledge, expertise, and potential to establish startups. Since there is no systematic approach to measure the innovation potential of university members based on their academic activities, the scouting process is typically subjective and relies heavily on the experience of the innovation coaches. In this paper, we motivate the need for INSE (INnovation Search Engine) to support innovation coaches during their search for innovation potential at a university. After discussing the information needs of the scouting process, we outline a basic system architecture to support it, and we identify a number of research challenges. Our aim is to motivate vigorous research in this area by illustrating the need for novel, data-driven approaches towards effective innovation scouting and successful knowledge transfer.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Arzani A., Handte M. and José Marrón P. (2023). Challenges in Implementing a University-Based Innovation Search Engine. In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR; ISBN 978-989-758-671-2, SciTePress, pages 477-486. DOI: 10.5220/0012263100003598

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir23,
author={Arman Arzani and Marcus Handte and Pedro José Marrón},
title={Challenges in Implementing a University-Based Innovation Search Engine},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR},
year={2023},
pages={477-486},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012263100003598},
isbn={978-989-758-671-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR
TI - Challenges in Implementing a University-Based Innovation Search Engine
SN - 978-989-758-671-2
AU - Arzani A.
AU - Handte M.
AU - José Marrón P.
PY - 2023
SP - 477
EP - 486
DO - 10.5220/0012263100003598
PB - SciTePress