Publication

Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer between SMEs and Universities. SOTA review No 42

Published: 11 June 2020

ERC SOTA review No 42

Associated Themes

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  Innovation
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  Productivity and performance

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Collaborative links between firms and universities are regarded as an important mechanism for the pursuit of R&D activities within an economy and encouraging innovation among firms. Due to their relative resource constraints, SMEs potentially stand to benefit from these collaborations as a means for leveraging new knowledge and expertise into the firm. This review examines the factors that underpin these collaborations, revealing it to be a socio-technical process reliant upon the ability of those involved to interact and understand one another. Thus, cognitive and relational similarities, i.e. sharing characteristics in terms of mutual networks and a common technical language, facilitate the formation and function of these collaborations.

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