Self-interest assumption and relational trust in university-industry knowledge transfers

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 335-347

  Santoro, Michael D ^a   Saparito, Patrick A ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge transfer; Relational trust; Self interest assumption; University industry alliances

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SURVEYS;

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERS; RELATIONAL TRUST; SELF-INTEREST ASSUMPTION;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33746602716     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2006.878103     Document Type: Article

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