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Despite enthusiasm for the use of intermediation as a knowledge transfer strategy, there is little research documenting the conditions for its success. This article addresses the role of the intermediary in a collaborative research project. The focus is on how the intermediary facilitates the implementation of an interactive knowledge transfer model. Using a case study as part of a research strategy, we demonstrate that the success of a collaborative research project rests on the credibility and legitimacy of the intermediary, as well as its ability to encourage the involvement of all stakeholders. In fact, the collaborative leadership demonstrated by the intermediary helped to reconcile the various motivations of the project's stakeholders as well as their views of the project's usefulness.

AbstractTechnology transfer, and its focus on research commercialization, is gaining popularity in all academic fields as a way to better demonstrate universities' external impacts. We conducted a multiple case‐study of three commercialization projects in Organizational Development, Information Technology, and Marketing, which took place in a university business school. We explored to what extent the technology transfer model of commercializing academic outputs could apply in business schools. We also examined its potential value compared to other ways of sharing academic expertise. Although the technology transfer approach appears to work, the three projects exhibited crucial characteristics that markedly differ from traditional technology transfer. Compared to other forms of knowledge uses, what makes research commercialization so attractive is that it is readily observable and traceable. However, it raises some fundamental questions about knowledge production and its use. Copyright © 2015 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Over the last few years the process of adding value to academic research results has become a growing phenomenon entailing important institutional changes. In the context of the knowledge economy, universities are considered to be central socio-economic actors. They are concerned with the development and the organization of technology transfer and the management of intellectual property. However, the value-adding process runs the risk of becoming confined to the commercialization of research results. The evolution of the role of the university in the economy and society is a subject of debates among politicians as well as academic and industrial actors. What is the impact of the process of adding value to research, considered as a new mission of the university, on the changing academic environment and on the traditional role of the university? To study this question we focus on the cases of Canada and Quebec. ; La valorisation des résultats de la recherche universitaire est un phénomène qui s'est accentué depuis quelques années et s'est accompagné d'importants changements institutionnels. Dans une économie de la connaissance, l'université se positionne comme un acteur socio- économique central. Elle se préoccupe beaucoup d'organiser le transfert technologique et de développer une gestion de la propriété intellectuelle, courant le risque de réduire l'idée de valorisation de la recherche à la commercialisation de ses résultats. La question de la place et du rôle des universités dans la société aujourd'hui est l'objet de vifs dé- bats pour les politiciens, les chercheurs universitaires et les industriels. Comment la valorisation, lorsqu'elle est vue comme une nouvelle mis- sion de l'université, s'inscrit-elle à travers les changements de contexte et s'accommode-t-elle des missions traditionnelles d'enseignement et de recherche? Nous considérerons cette question en portant une attention particulière aux contextes canadien et québécois.

The concepts of entrepreneurship and citizenship intersect more and more in the educational projects of social entrepreneurship. In this article, we have analyzed an experiment conducted by a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase citizen participation. We are interested in the discourses and tools that it has mobilized for training in social entrepreneurship. Our objective is to uncover the norms and values underlying the conception of citizenship transmitted through the training. We show that there are tensions between the aims of democratic citizenship promoted by the organization and the concept of the citizen that underlies training in social entrepreneurship. Our contribution is twofold: 1) We enrich the literature on education for democratic citizenship by analyzing a new approach, that of education in social entrepreneurship; 2) We take a critical look at the concept of social entrepreneurship when it is used in training for democratic citizenship by analyzing this practice and framing it within the field of social innovation ; Dans les projets éducationnels de l'entrepreneuriat social, il y de plus en plus de chevauchements entre les concepts d'entrepreneuriat et de citoyenneté. Dans cet article, nous avons analysé une expérience menée par un organisme sans but lucratif dont la mission est d'augmenter la participation citoyenne. Nous nous intéressons aux discours et aux outils dont il se sert dans sa formation en entrepreneuriat social. Notre objectif est de repérer les normes et valeurs sous- tendant la conception de citoyenneté transmise au cours de la formation. Nous montrons qu'il y a des tensions entre les objectifs de citoyenneté démocratique promus par l'organisme et le concept de citoyen sous-tendant la formation en en- trepreneuriat social. Notre contribution a deux facettes : 1) Nous enrichissons la littérature sur l'éducation pour une ci- toyenneté démocratique en analysant une nouvelle approche, celle de l'éducation en entrepreneuriat social; 2) Nous jetons un regard critique sur le concept d'entrepreneuriat social quand il est utilisé dans les formations à la citoyenneté démocratique en analysant cette pratique et en la situant dans le domaine de l'innovation sociale.