Investigating the factors that diminish the barriers to university-industry collaboration

Research Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 858-868

  Bruneel, Johan ^a,b   D'Este, Pablo ^b   Salter, Ammon ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barriers to collaboration; Inter organizational trust; Universities; University industry collaboration

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; PUBLIC RECORDS; UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 77953811259     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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