Knowledge Creation and Commercialization Activities in Polish Public HEUs in the Area of Technical and Engineering Sciences

摘要

History of knowledge organization within higher education units (HEU) changes with respect to the idea of measuring activities of academia. The visible evolution of HEU's role in the economy is indicated in the performance of particular entities. Apart from the education activity, the production of new knowledge and publication of research results are no longer the sole aspects of HEU performance. The knowledge organization structure requires entrepreneurial behaviour from academia. In this paper, activities related to the commercialization of research results performed within HEU are analysed. The study concerns units in the area of technical and engineering studies and covers different aspects of research and development (R&D) performance. There is a visible relation between the level of research/teaching team quality and publication activity and their economic influence. Statistical analyses conducted try to detect relations and/or influence of publications activity and researchers' level of education on commercialization benefits from research projects performance. HEU with a relatively high commercialization performance are those with the highest level of publication activity. At the same time, entities with a high number of well-experienced researchers are those with significant benefits from research projects. These results are important for the idea of measuring modern HEU performance with respect to traditional knowledge organization in academia.