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University-Industry Partnerships in the Development of the Academic Patents: Factors for Building Trust

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Our research aims to analyze the role of trust in partnerships of academic inventors that developed patented inventions. We studied the influence of similarity in the area of research, reciprocal communication, decision process similarity, team size, contact frequency, and relationship maturity in trust building. We used a mixed method approach to data collection: questionnaire and interview. We observed that patents developed in partnership are still a minority: from the 104 analyzed patents, only 37 were developed in partnership: 18 University-Industry partnerships and 19 Academic partnerships. Partnerships are mostly national. We conclude that decision process similarity and contact frequency are significant for building trust within a partnership. Academic inventors with extensive experience in patenting and in patent commercialization stressed that University-Industry partnerships are important for a better co-development of patents with a focus on the market.

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    Liliana Alves & Ana Dias Daniel

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

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  2. Department of Industrial Electronics, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Filomena Soares

  3. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Justyna Trojanowska

  4. Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Machines and Tools, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine

    Vitalii Ivanov

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Alves, L., Daniel, A.D. (2022). University-Industry Partnerships in the Development of the Academic Patents: Factors for Building Trust. In: Machado, J., Soares, F., Trojanowska, J., Ivanov, V. (eds) Innovations in Industrial Engineering. icieng 2021. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78170-5_38

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