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Tomas Hellström. Photo.

Tomas Hellström

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Tomas Hellström. Photo.

University–industry collaboration : A literature review and synthesis

Author

  • Karolin Sjöö
  • Tomas Hellström

Summary, in English

This study applies a systematic literature review and qualitative content analysis to identify and synthesize key factors that enable collaborative innovation between industry and universities. Using a keyword search in the Web of Science database, the review identified 40 papers that were frequently cited on the topic. Results were summarized into seven main themes or central factors stimulating collaborative innovation: resources, university organization, boundary-spanning functions, collaborative experience, culture, status centrality and environmental context. This article elaborates on these ‘enabling factors’ and uses them to summarize a number of results from the reviewed studies regarding facilitators of collaborative innovation. The discussion focuses on how these factors relate and the extent to which they are amenable to policy intervention.

Department/s

  • Department of Business Administration

Publishing year

2019-02

Language

English

Pages

275-285

Publication/Series

Industry and Higher Education

Volume

33

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article review

Publisher

Butterworths

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • collaborative innovation
  • systematic literature review
  • university–industry relations

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0950-4222