Although universities are generally under pressure to increase their interactions with industry, academic departments vary enormously in the extent to which they collaborate with businesses. There are several factors, which, to different extents, drive or hamper academics' capabilities to engage...

There is growing political pressure on universities to intensify their interaction with industry and to enlarge their own research funding options, in a context characterised by increasing constraints on public spending. However, whether the successful achievement of such a political desired...

There is increasing political pressures on universities to raise research funding from industry and contribute actively to economic development. However, whether or not promotion of the so called third mission in universities, of interacting with industry, is effective without government funding...