Challenges and Best Practices in Industry-Academia Collaborations in Software Engineering: a Systematic Literature Review

dc.authorid Ozkan, Baris/0000-0002-5489-6274
dc.authorid Ozkan, Baris/0000-0002-5489-6274
dc.authorid Petersen, Kai/0000-0002-1532-8223
dc.authorid Garousi, Vahid/0000-0001-6590-7576
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dc.authorwosid Ozkan, Baris/AAZ-1810-2020
dc.authorwosid Ozkan, Baris/AGQ-5334-2022
dc.authorwosid Ozkan, Baris/HOH-5593-2023
dc.contributor.author Garousi, Vahid
dc.contributor.author Petersen, Kai
dc.contributor.author Ozkan, Baris
dc.contributor.other Information Systems Engineering
dc.contributor.other Software Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-05T14:31:26Z
dc.date.available 2024-07-05T14:31:26Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.department Atılım University en_US
dc.department-temp [Garousi, Vahid] Hacettepe Univ, Dept Comp Engn, Software Engn Res Grp, Ankara, Turkey; [Garousi, Vahid] Maral Software Engn Consulting Corp, Calgary, AB, Canada; [Petersen, Kai] Blekinge Inst Technol, Sch Engn, Dept Software Engn, Karlskrona, Sweden; [Ozkan, Baris] Atilim Univ, Dept Informat Syst Engn, Ankara, Turkey en_US
dc.description Ozkan, Baris/0000-0002-5489-6274; Ozkan, Baris/0000-0002-5489-6274; Petersen, Kai/0000-0002-1532-8223; Garousi, Vahid/0000-0001-6590-7576 en_US
dc.description.abstract Context: The global software industry and the software engineering (SE) academia are two large communities. However, unfortunately, the level of joint industry-academia collaborations in SE is still relatively very low, compared to the amount of activity in each of the two communities. It seems that the two 'camps' show only limited interest/motivation to collaborate with one other. Many researchers and practitioners have written about the challenges, success patterns (what to do, i.e., how to collaborate) and anti-patterns (what not do do) for industry-academia collaborations. Objective: To identify (a) the challenges to avoid risks to the collaboration by being aware of the challenges, (b) the best practices to provide an inventory of practices (patterns) allowing for an informed choice of practices to use when planning and conducting collaborative projects. Method: A systematic review has been conducted. Synthesis has been done using grounded-theory based coding procedures. Results: Through thematic analysis we identified 10 challenge themes and 17 best practice themes. A key outcome was the inventory of best practices, the most common ones recommended in different contexts were to hold regular workshops and seminars with industry, assure continuous learning from industry and academic sides, ensure management engagement, the need for a champion, basing research on real world problems, showing explicit benefits to the industry partner, be agile during the collaboration, and the co-location of the researcher on the industry side. Conclusion: Given the importance of industry-academia collaboration to conduct research of high practical relevance we provide a synthesis of challenges and best practices, which can be used by researchers and practitioners to make informed decisions on how to structure their collaborations. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 130
dc.identifier.doi 10.1016/j.infsof.2016.07.006
dc.identifier.endpage 127 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0950-5849
dc.identifier.issn 1873-6025
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-84980410074
dc.identifier.startpage 106 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2016.07.006
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/683
dc.identifier.volume 79 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000383302500007
dc.identifier.wosquality Q2
dc.institutionauthor Garousi, Vahid
dc.institutionauthor Özkan, Barış
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Diğer en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 176
dc.subject Software engineering en_US
dc.subject Industry-academia collaborations en_US
dc.subject Industry en_US
dc.subject Universities en_US
dc.subject Challenges en_US
dc.subject Success patterns en_US
dc.subject Best practices en_US
dc.subject Systematic literature review en_US
dc.title Challenges and Best Practices in Industry-Academia Collaborations in Software Engineering: a Systematic Literature Review en_US
dc.type Review en_US
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