Commercialization of Knowledge based on the Role of Organizational Ambidexterity in Higher Education

The purpose of this study was to commercialize knowledge based on the role of organizational ambidexterity.

The present study in terms of purpose is applied with a qualitative approach. Research data have been collected using inductive content analysis of knowledge commercialization frameworks and holding two Delphi panel courses by knowledge commercialization experts based on ambidexterity. participants included twenty-eight person of university experts, specialists and people working in growth centers in Mazandaran province in the academic year of 2019-2020, who were selected by snowball method until reaching theoretical saturation.  Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using semantic unit analysis and Delphi technique.

According to the findings, dimensions, components and indicators of knowledge commercialization based on organizational ambidexterity in the form of four dimensions including commercialization of knowledge based on structural ambidexterity, managerial ambidexterity, contextual ambidexterity and innovative ambidexterity, and ten components of spatial separation, parallel structures, support of managers, empowerment actions of  manager, motivational actions of the manager, Opportunistic actions of the manager, institutional, individual, exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation and eighty-three indicators were identified.

Based on the research results, all dimensions, components and indicators were approved.