WHICH UNIVERSITY TO PARTNER WITH: AN INVESTIGATION INTO PARTNER SELECTION MOTIVES AMONG SMALL INNOVATIVE FIRMS

The paper explores small innovative firms' motives for selecting university partners. As well as risk-reducing, cost-reducing, and value creating motives that are established in the literature, "enabling" is proposed as a fourth motive, which asserts that firms select university partners that enable the firm to remain flexible and adaptable in commercialising early-stage innovations.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	KARLSON, BRIAN ; CALLAGHER, LISA
Published in:	International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim). - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., ISSN 1757-5877. - Vol. 16.2012, 03, p. 1240002-1
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Subject:	University–industry relationships \| small innovative firms \| partner selection \| research commercialisation

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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