The knowledge and human resources distribution system for university-industry cooperation

One of the main purposes of universities is to create new intellectual resources that will increase social values. These intellectual resources include academic research papers, lecture notes, patents, and creative ideas produced by both professors and students. However, intellectual resources in universities are often not distributed to the actual users or companies; and moreover, they are not even systematically being managed inside of the universities. Therefore, it is almost impossible for companies to access the knowledge created by university students and professors to utilize them. Thus, the current level of knowledge sharing between universities and industries are very low. This causes a great extravagant with high-quality intellectual and human resources, and it leads to quite an amount of social loss in the modern society. In the 21st century, the creative ideas are the key growth powers for many industries. Many of the globally leading companies such as Fedex, Dell, and Facebook have established their business models based on the innovative ideas created by university students in undergraduate courses. This indicates that the unconventional ideas from young generations can create new growth power for companies and immensely increase social values. Therefore, this paper suggests of a new platform for intellectual properties distribution with university-industry cooperation. The suggested platform distributes intellectual resources of universities to industries. This platform has following characteristics. First, it distributes not only the intellectual resources, but also the human resources associated with the knowledge. Second, it diversifies the types of compensation for utilizing the intellectual properties, which are beneficial for both the university students and companies. For example, it extends the conventional monetary rewards to non-monetary rewards such as influencing on the participating internship programs or job interviews. Third, it suggests of a new knowledge map based on the relationships between key words, so that the various types of intellectual properties can be searched efficiently. In order to design the system platform, we surveyed 120 potential users to obtain the system requirements. First, 50 university students and 30 professors in humanities and social sciences departments were surveyed. We sent queries on what types of intellectual resources they produce per year, how many intellectual resources they produce, if they are willing to distribute their intellectual properties to the industries, and what types of compensations they expect in returns. Secondly, 40 entrepreneurs were surveyed, who are potential consumers of the intellectual properties of universities. We sent queries on what types of intellectual resources they want, what types of compensations they are willing to provide in returns, and what are the main factors they considered to be important when searching for the intellectual properties. The implications of this survey are as follows. First, entrepreneurs are willing to utilize intellectual properties created by both professors and students. They are more interested in creative ideas in universities rather than the academic papers or educational class materials. Second, non-monetary rewards, such as participating internship program or job interview, can be the appropriate types of compensations to replace monetary rewards. The results of the survey showed that majority of the university students were willing to provide their intellectual properties without any monetary rewards to earn the industrial networks with companies. Also, the entrepreneurs were willing to provide non-monetary compensation and hoped to have networks with university students for recruiting. Thus, the non-monetary rewards are mutually beneficial for both sides. Thirdly, classifying intellectual resources of universities based on the academic areas are inappropriate for efficient searching. Also, the various types of intellectual resources cannot be categorized into one standard. This paper suggests of a new platform for the distribution of intellectual materials and human resources, with university-industry cooperation based on these survey results. The suggested platform contains the four major components such as knowledge schema, knowledge map, system interface, and GUI (Graphic User Interface), and it presents the overall system architecture.

대학에서 창출하는 지적/인적자원에 대한 기업연계 플랫폼: 인문사회계열을 중심으로

대학은 교육을 통한 인재육성과 더불어, 사회적 가치를 창출할 수 있는 새로운 지식 및 아이디어를 창출하는 것을 주요한 목적으로 한다. 이러한 지적 자원은 비단 교수들이 생산하는 논문에 국한되지 않으며, 학생들로부터 창출되는 창의적인 아이디어, 독창적 문제인식 및 솔루션을 포괄하고 있다. 대학에서 창출되는 주요한 지적자원은 학술적인 지식인 '논문', 교육적 용도의 '강의자료', 텀프로젝트, 공모전 등을 통해 창출되는 창의적 형태의 '아이디어', 그리고 법적인 지적재산권이 확보된 '특허'등이 있다. 그러나, 이러한 대학의 지적 자원은 대부분 강의실 이외의 공간으로 유통되지 못하고 있으며, 대학 내에서조차 체계적으로 관리되지 못한다. 본 연구는 인문사회계열의 대학에서 창출되는 다양한 형태의 지적 자원을 기업에 유통시키고, 이를 통하여 대학의 인적자원이 기업에 연계될 수 있도록 하는 새로운 형태의 시스템 플랫폼을 제안한다. 즉, 대학의 지적자원을 실제로 이를 활용할 기업에게 시스템적으로 유통시킬 수 있는 방안을 연구하였으며, 이와 더불어 대학에서 배출되는 우수한 인재들의 정보를 기업에 함께 전달하여, 산학연계를 공고히 할 수 있는 시스템의 플랫폼을 설계하였다. 이를 위해, 본 연구에서는 시스템의 주요 사용자인 학생 및 교수, 그리고 기업의 실무담당자 총 100명에 대한 사용자 요구도를 조사하고, 이를 토대로 대학의 지적/인적자원에 대한 유통플랫폼 및 이에 대한 그래픽 사용자 인터페이스 (Graphic User Interface) 프로토타입을 구성하였다. 마지막으로, 제안된 플랫폼을 효과적으로 운영할 수 있는 방안에 대한 정책적 시사점을 제안하였다.