[1D5-GS-11] AI and Society

[1D5-GS-11-04] Research on the impact of “ambidextrous researchers” with two hats of academia and cooperation in the era of digital convergence

〇Tomomi Yamazaki¹ (1. The University of Tokyo)

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Keywords:digital convergence, ambidextrous researchers with two hats of academia and corporation, highly cited papers

Academic-corporate collaboration is evolving. In the era of digital convergence, especially in recent years when AI has widely spread and become prevalent in various fields, academic-corporate collaboration has pursued efficiency and effect, and we can observe a certain number of cases where researchers themselves bridge academia and industry with two hats of academia and corporation. In this research, we focus on researchers who conduct academic-corporate collaboration alone (we call "ambidextrous researchers") and study the impact of academic-corporate co-authored papers. Through the study, we used Scopus as a data set of papers and extracted highly cited papers for analysis.As a result, it is confirmed that the number of citations of academic-corporate co-authored papers, especially those including "ambidextrous researchers" as authors, is significantly higher in the top highly cited papers. In this paper, we propose the method for analysis and present the impact of academic-corporate co-authored papers quantitatively.