How Software Engineering Research Overlooks Local Industry: A Smaller Economy Perspective
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This study addresses the growing disconnect between software engineering research and local industry practices in small economies, particularly those where English is not the primary language—a gap that significantly impacts small and medium-sized enterprises. Drawing on the authors’ experiences as researchers in Poland, the work employs reflexive thematic analysis to offer a nuanced qualitative interpretation of data from the ICSE FOSE community survey, uncovering structural drivers of this misalignment. From the distinctive vantage point of non-English-speaking small economies, the paper proposes a set of targeted, actionable strategies to strengthen collaboration between academia and industry. These recommendations aim to enhance knowledge co-creation and transfer, thereby offering a transferable paradigm for improving research-practice synergy in comparable contexts.
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The software engineering researchers from countries with smaller economies, particularly non-English speaking ones, represent valuable minorities within the software engineering community. As researchers from Poland, we represent such a country. We analyzed the ICSE FOSE (Future of Software Engineering) community survey through reflexive thematic analysis to show our viewpoint on key software community issues. We believe that the main problem is the growing research-industry gap, which particularly impacts smaller communities and small local companies. Based on this analysis and our experiences, we present a set of recommendations for improvements that would enhance software engineering research and industrial collaborations in smaller economies.
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research-industry gap
smaller economies
local industry
software engineering research
non-English speaking countries
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reflexive thematic analysis
research-industry gap
smaller economies
local industry
software engineering research
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