Cambridge Centre for Business Research Survey of Knowledge Exchange Activity with Universities by United Kingdom Companies, 2017-2021

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br><p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">The <span style="font-style: italic;">Cambridge Centre for Business Research Survey of Knowledge Exchange Activity with Universities by United Kingdom Companies, 2017-2021</span>&nbsp;contains the results of an online survey of directors of UK companies in 2020-2021.<br><br>The survey was designed to assess the extent and nature of the knowledge exchange interactions of their companies with the university sector. It covers the three-year period to March 2020 prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and questions relating to the subsequent impact of the pandemic on knowledge exchange patterns. The researchers inquired about 33 modes of interaction grouped into four broad categories. These were commercialisation (3 modes), people-based (10 modes), problem-solving (12 modes) and community-based (4 modes).<br><br>The survey covers a sample of 3,823 companies in all sectors, regions and countries of the UK and employment sizes ranging from micro-firms less than 10 employees, to the largest public listed corporations. The response rate was 4.4 per cent and a detailed response bias analyses by survey wave and prompt wave showed largely insignificant sample response bias compared to the sampling frame drawn from the FAME database of all UK companies.<br><br>The dataset provides a unique source of data on a critical period of challenge for knowledge exchange in the UK. David Sweeney, the then Executive Director of Research England which sponsored the survey commented on an initial report of results in 2022 that "This report which has an exclusive focus on company interactions with universities, is an important addition to our understanding of the collaboration process" (The Changing State of Business-University Interactions in the UK. Centre for Business Research and NCUB. 2022 p2).<br><br>The survey dataset contains many variables comparable with a similar previous postal survey of an earlier period by two members of the current research team. &nbsp;The data from this is available from&nbsp;the Data Archive under SN 6464 - Cambridge Centre for Business Research Survey of Knowledge Exchange Activity by United Kingdom Businesses, 2005-2009.</p><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br><p>The survey was designed to assess the extent and nature of the knowledge exchange interactions of UK companies with the UK university sector.<br>
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<P>摘要版权归英国数据服务（UK Data Service）及数据收集版权所有者所有。</P><br><p class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">《剑桥商业研究中心2017-2021年英国企业与大学知识交流活动调查》包含2020-2021年对英国企业董事进行的在线调查结果。<br><br>该调查旨在评估英国企业与大学领域知识交流互动的程度与性质。调查涵盖2020年3月新冠疫情（Covid-19 pandemic）前的三年期，并包含疫情对知识交流模式后续影响的相关问题。研究人员询问了33种互动模式，这些模式被归为四大类：商业化（3种）、以人为本（10种）、问题解决（12种）及基于社区的（4种）。<br><br>调查样本包含英国所有行业、地区及构成国的3823家企业，员工规模从不足10人的微型企业到大型上市公司不等。回复率为4.4%，通过调查波次及提示波次开展的详细回复偏差分析显示，与基于英国所有企业的FAME数据库（FAME database）构建的抽样框架相比，样本回复偏差基本不显著。<br><br>该数据集为英国知识交流面临挑战的关键时期提供了独特的数据来源。时任资助该调查的英格兰研究委员会（Research England）执行董事David Sweeney在2022年的初步结果报告中指出："本报告专门聚焦企业与大学的互动，是对我们理解合作过程的重要补充"（《英国企业-大学互动的变化状态》，剑桥商业研究中心与英国国家大学与商业中心（NCUB），2022年，第2页）。<br><br>该调查数据集包含多个可与当前研究团队两名成员此前开展的同期类似邮寄调查相比对的变量。该早期调查的数据可通过数据档案库（Data Archive）获取，编号为SN 6464——《剑桥商业研究中心2005-2009年英国企业知识交流活动调查》。</p><br><B>核心主题</B>:<BR><br><p>该调查旨在评估英国企业与英国大学领域知识交流互动的程度与性质。<br></p>