Business meets the humanities: the human perspective in University-Industry collaboration

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke, Mikka Nielsen, Matilde Lykkebo Petersen, Lise Tjørring
Chapter 2. Provoking dialogue: Ethnographic examples as bridge-builders in university-industry collaborations
Lise Tjørring, Mikka Nielsen
Chapter 3. Becoming-with or not at all: the case of a university-business collaboration contract
Matilde Lykkebo Petersen
Chapter 4. Performing impact through texts: Unwrapping the social processes behind an tnstitutional term
Ivanche Dimitrievski, Håkan Jönsson
Chapter 5. Questioning the business-humanities divide in media studies: a reformulation of the administrative-critical distinction in stakeholder collaboration
Niklas Alexander Chimirri, Jelena Kleut, David Mathieu, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Chapter 6. Making Difference: An enquiry into what happens when an architect company acquires humanistic knowledge as a competitive business strategy
Mark Vacher
Chapter 7. Human-centred research and Open Innovation (OI): How to implement and facilitate crosscutting collaborations in the built environment
Isabel Froes, Cameline Bolbroe
Chapter 8. From position- to issue-driven collaborations between the humanities and business: The case of ‘Eat it, and save it’
Morten Krogh Petersen
Chapter 9. Designing anthropological impact: How case-based teaching makes a difference
Simon Westergaard Lex, Kasper Tang Vangkilde
Chapter 10. The AIM method: Bringing teaching, research, and business together in authentic industry mega-cases
Mie Femø Nielsen
Chapter 11. Differing expectations in student-industry collaborations: Towards a value-based framework fostering dialogic ground
Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke, Karsten Pedersen

Within the last decades, universities are increasingly expected and measured by their direct engagement in collaborations beyond academia. Exploring the potential that lies in university-business collaborations, the present anthology attends to the dilemmas, dualities, and challenges that follow such collaborations, especially in the academic traditions of the social sciences and humanities.

Each contribution investigates how the human perspective – a perspective that highlights how complex knowledge and a deep understanding of human everyday life – enriches companies’ processes, products, services, and ideas. Some chapters focus on collaborations between researchers and business practitioners, others focus on teaching examples involving students in the collaborative work with businesses and organisations, and again others contribute with more theoretical considerations.

By gathering hands-on experiences, the book provides readers with inspirations, reflections on, and insights into university-business collaborations. This book, therefore, is intended for researchers within the humanities and social sciences, who want to get a deeper understanding of the practice of such collaborations.