[Reminder] [UOW Doctoral Study] Improving Commercialization Practices - a survey

[Mohammad Batouk]

Toward Increased Understanding of Innovation Intermediaries

Dear

3DS William & Mary Computer Science

This is the first reminder for the above titled survey. If you have already completed the survey, thank you. Otherwise, kindly continue to read the information that follows.

We approach your organization as an innovation intermediary – defined as an organization that, in one way or another, helps internal or external clients (i.e. entrepreneurs, inventors, students startups, established companies) to make a commercial use of new innovation. This can occur at various stages; for example, providing physical office space and administration services to startups, providing coaching, mentoring and training to entrepreneurs, and presenting business advice to startups and established companies. These are some of the services that are provided by innovation intermediaries.

The survey includes questions about your organization as an innovation intermediary, your stakeholders*, your services, your goals and your strategies.
As a “key informant” you are asked to take part in an online survey that will contribute to our understanding of innovation intermediaries; that in turn will help in improving innovation intermediaries’ services/practices and for increasing the success rate of commercialization. This contribution to knowledge will not be possible without your insights through the participation in this survey.

This survey is designed to capture as much as possible of innovation intermediaries' related information, therefore, you may encounter some questions for which you have no answer; you can simply go to next question.
You can complete the survey at a time that is convenient to your schedule through the following link. Further, you can leave the survey and return to the same place where you have stopped using the same link.

http://s-8dabf8-i.edu.surveygizmo.com/s3/i-100254525-596965/?sguid=100254525

Alternatively, you can use the following link if you face any difficulty accessing the above link (however, this link doesn’t have the feature to save your response for a subsequent visit), (Please note that the survey is in English only):

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1621305/22

As a token of appreciation for the time you have given to this study, you may ask to receive a copy of the thesis that will emerge out of this study, as well to have your name entered into a draw for one of 50 prizes. The prizes are $30 iTunes gift cards.

For more information about the study and your involvement, please read the first invitation email, and the first page of the survey.

* Stakeholders are those who can affect or be affected by the organization's actions, objectives and policies. It can be a person, group or organization that has interest or concern in your organization.

Thank you in advance for your interest and assistance with this research.

Yours truly,
M. A. Batouk
PhD. Candidate
Department of Management Sciences
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Email - mba...@uwaterloo.ca
Telephone – 1-519-888-4567 ext 33368

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