The effect of teacher-student collaboration on academic innovation in universities: an exploration from the perspective of collaborative process
International Journal of Innovation Science
ISSN: 1757-2223
Article publication date: 17 August 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to explore the effect of teacher–student collaboration on academic innovation in universities in different stages of collaboration.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on collaboration life cycle, this paper divided teacher–student collaboration into initial, growth and mature stages to explore how teacher–student collaboration affects academic innovation.
Findings
Collecting data from National Science Foundation of China, the empirical analysis found that collaboration increases the publication of local (Chinese) papers at all stages. However, teacher–student collaboration did not significantly improve the publication of international (English) papers in the initial stage. In the growth stage, teacher–student collaboration has a U-shaped effect on publishing English papers, while its relationship is positive in the mature stage.
Practical implications
The results offer suggestions for teachers and students to choose suitable partners and also provide some implications for improving academic innovation.
Originality/value
This paper constructed a model in which the effect of teacher–student collaboration on academic innovation in universities was established.
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Acknowledgements
The author wish to appreciate the valuable comments of the anonymous reviewers. All errors remain the sole responsibility of the author.
This work was supported by 2023 Shaanxi Province Philosophy and Social Science Research Project (2023QN0098), Key Scientific Research Project of Education Department of Shaanxi Province (21JT035), Xi’an Social Science Planning Fund Project under Grant (23GL43), Teaching Reform project of Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications (JGB202109), Postgraduate Education Reform program of Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications (YJGJ2022044).
Citation
Pan, W. and Liu, Z. (2023), "The effect of teacher-student collaboration on academic innovation in universities: an exploration from the perspective of collaborative process", International Journal of Innovation Science, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJIS-07-2022-0116
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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