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Building Bridges Between Industry and Academia: What Is the Profile of an Industrial Doctorate Student?

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Structural and Institutional Transformations in Doctoral Education

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This chapter analyses whether the profile of students enrolled in industrial doctorates in Portugal reflects the dual culture of industry and academia. Based on student perceptions, the following aspects are analysed: motivations and expectations, the personality traits perceived to be in tune with the demands of industrial doctorates and the skills and competences acquired during the programme. Findings suggest that the profile of Portuguese industrial doctorate students has a great potential to bridge two apparently distant worlds, academia and industry. Students develop a more pragmatic profile focused on combining synergies, taking advantage of academic research tools to solve real-world problems posed by the industry. This profile points to the emergence of a different professional identity than the one typically associated with PhD holders.

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    Currently, authors talk about a quintuple helix (see Carayannis, Barth, & Campbell, 2012) and even about an N-tuple helix (see Park, 2014).

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    Very recent legislation allows polytechnics to award doctorates under very restricted conditions (the capacity of the institution to carry out R&D activities and to have at least 75% of the human resources integrated into research units). A minimum evaluation of ‘Very Good’ by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) is also required.

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    Orlanda Tavares & Cristina Sin

  2. Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Matosinhos, Portugal

    Orlanda Tavares, Cristina Sin & Diana Soares

  3. Research Centre for Human Development – Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal

    Diana Soares

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Tavares, O., Sin, C., Soares, D. (2020). Building Bridges Between Industry and Academia: What Is the Profile of an Industrial Doctorate Student?. In: Cardoso, S., Tavares, O., Sin, C., Carvalho, T. (eds) Structural and Institutional Transformations in Doctoral Education. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38046-5_12

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