Purpose

Although it is clear that there are many benefits of academic–industry partnership through project-based learning (PBL) courses offered by universities, however, there are challenges in establishing such partnerships that if not addressed, may result in either failure of such collaboration or an unpleasant experience for parties involved. Accordingly, this study aims to address this knowledge gap in the PBL literature by identifying the essence of partnership management and offering insights to managing such partnerships effectively.

Design/methodology/approach

This study aims to develop a framework that highlights the essence of partnership management in a PBL setting and validate the framework by conducting a focus group study on a university in Singapore (UNIS)’s PBL programmes called UNIS-X and UNIS-XO.

Findings

The results suggest that the key features of partnership management include a value proposition, depth of collaboration, knowledge creation and exchange and continuous feedback. In addition, the findings offer useful insights to managing effective partnerships when engaging industry partners in a PBL programme.

Originality/value

For researchers, this paper contributes to the PBL literature by identifying and validating the key features of effective partnerships in PBL. This serves as one of the first exploratory and validation studies in examining key features of partnership in the PBL literature. For educators, this study offers useful insights to understanding effective partnership management when engaging industry partners in a PBL course. With the knowledge, educators can devise useful actions to ensure these features of a partnership are established and maintained throughout the project.

中文翻译：

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基于项目的学习中伙伴关系管理的本质：来自大学全球项目计划的见解

目的

虽然很明显，通过大学提供的基于项目的学习 (PBL) 课程建立学术-产业合作伙伴关系有很多好处，但是，建立这种合作伙伴关系存在挑战，如果不加以解决，可能会导致这种合作失败或当事人的不愉快经历。因此，本研究旨在通过确定伙伴关系管理的本质并提供有效管理此类伙伴关系的见解来解决 PBL 文献中的这一知识差距。

设计/方法/方法

本研究旨在开发一个框架，突出 PBL 环境中伙伴关系管理的本质，并通过对新加坡大学 (UNIS) 的名为 UNIS-X 和 UNIS-XO 的 PBL 计划进行焦点小组研究来验证该框架。

发现

结果表明，伙伴关系管理的关键特征包括价值主张、合作深度、知识创造和交流以及持续反馈。此外，研究结果为在 PBL 计划中吸引行业合作伙伴时管理有效的合作伙伴关系提供了有用的见解。

原创性/价值

对于研究人员，本文通过识别和验证 PBL 中有效伙伴关系的关键特征，为 PBL 文献做出贡献。这是检验 PBL 文献中伙伴关系关键特征的首批探索性和验证性研究之一。对于教育工作者而言，本研究为在 PBL 课程中吸引行业合作伙伴时了解有效的合作伙伴管理提供了有用的见解。有了这些知识，教育工作者可以设计有用的行动，以确保在整个项目中建立和维护伙伴关系的这些特征。