STRATEGIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: FIXING THE MISSING CHAIN IN THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF UZBEK UNIVERSITY RESEARCHES
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Key Words: Strategic Resource Management, commercialization, university researches, Resource-Based View, RBV, innovation, absorptive capacity, missing chain, strategic, VRIO, startups, ecosystem.Abstract
Abstract. The study investigates the strategic resource management of academic
intellectual property, aiming to explore the transition mechanisms for the
commercialization of university researches in the Republic of Uzbekistan. By utilizing
the Resource-Based View (RBV) logic and qualitative assessment of the VRIO
framework, the analysis reveals a significant gap in the strategic orchestration of
academic knowledge, but exposes an “innovation productivity paradox” in the
emerging digital economy. The high concentration of raw scientific publications is
negatively correlated with actual startup ecosystem integration, reflecting the
dominance of isolated academic practices over market-driven innovation. Besides,
institutional landscapes revealed a critical deficit in the organizational capacity
necessary to exploit valuable resources. To meet the ambitious targets of the “Digital
Uzbekistan - 2030” strategy, there is a necessity of fixing the “missing chain”-
specifically, intermediary technology transfer mechanisms-extracting crucial lessons
from strategic resource orchestration to transform academic potential into sustained
competitive advantage.
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Key Words: Strategic Resource Management, commercialization, university
researches, Resource-Based View, RBV, innovation, absorptive capacity, missing
chain, strategic, VRIO, startups, ecosystem.
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