Table A2 Unrotated principal components...

Table A2

Unrotated principal components of barriers to UBC

Description of barrier	PCA1	PCA2	PCA3	PCA4	PCA5
1. Differing motivation/values between university and business (motivation and communication)	0.4127	0.3684	−0.3635	0.3399	0.2229
2. Limited absorption capacity of business		0.431
3. Lack of people with scientific knowledge within business	0.5353
4. Lack of university funding for UBC	0.5116
5. The focus on producing practical results by business				0.4829
6. Universities lack awareness of opportunities arising from UBC	0.4764
7. Business lacks awareness of university research activities/offerings	0.5198
8. Differing mode of communication and language between university and business	0.4969
9. Limited resources of SMEs	0.4578
10. Frequent staff turnovers within the business			0.5278
11. No appropriate initial contact person within either the university or business					0.3947
12. Bureaucracy related to UBC	0.5173
13. Business needs for confidentiality			0.5898
14. Lack of government funding for UBC		−0.4935
15. University management does not sufficiently priorities or reward such activities		−0.3897
16. My research topic is not (sufficiently) relevant for collaboration with business	0.3355	0.2128	0.2943	0.199	0.1341
17. It is difficult to rely on companies about ownership of know-how and IP	0.5309	0.173	0.413	−0.0451	0.0002
18. Insufficient work time allocated by the university for academics' UBC activities	0.4986
19. UBC conflicts with my teaching and research responsibilities	0.5273
20. Difficulty in finding the appropriate collaboration partner	0.5572

Description of barrier	PCA1	PCA2	PCA3	PCA4	PCA5
1. Differing motivation/values between university and business (motivation and communication)	0.4127	0.3684	−0.3635	0.3399	0.2229
2. Limited absorption capacity of business		0.431
3. Lack of people with scientific knowledge within business	0.5353
4. Lack of university funding for UBC	0.5116
5. The focus on producing practical results by business				0.4829
6. Universities lack awareness of opportunities arising from UBC	0.4764
7. Business lacks awareness of university research activities/offerings	0.5198
8. Differing mode of communication and language between university and business	0.4969
9. Limited resources of SMEs	0.4578
10. Frequent staff turnovers within the business			0.5278
11. No appropriate initial contact person within either the university or business					0.3947
12. Bureaucracy related to UBC	0.5173
13. Business needs for confidentiality			0.5898
14. Lack of government funding for UBC		−0.4935
15. University management does not sufficiently priorities or reward such activities		−0.3897
16. My research topic is not (sufficiently) relevant for collaboration with business	0.3355	0.2128	0.2943	0.199	0.1341
17. It is difficult to rely on companies about ownership of know-how and IP	0.5309	0.173	0.413	−0.0451	0.0002
18. Insufficient work time allocated by the university for academics' UBC activities	0.4986
19. UBC conflicts with my teaching and research responsibilities	0.5273
20. Difficulty in finding the appropriate collaboration partner	0.5572

Note(s): PCA loadings above |0.40| are shown. Factors were labelled according to the dominant conceptual theme of the items (see text for interpretation)

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