Title
Cooperation projects between university and companies: process of formation and objectives of the stakeholders
Abstract
This paper scrutinizes cooperation projects between universities and companies. The well-functioning links between universities and companies and knowledge transfer in supporting the economic growth are becoming increasingly more important. One link between universities and companies by means of which the knowledge transfer can take place is cooperation projects. The formation of the cooperation projects and objectives of the stakeholders as well as possibilities to clarify these objectives in order to promote and facilitate the cooperation projects are discussed in the paper. As an example, the concept and process of formation of cooperation projects of Innovation and Business Centre MEKTORY of Tallinn University of Technology are described.
Keywords
university-industry relations, cooperation projects, knowledge transfer, technology transfer office
JEL classifications
O32
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/67
DOI
Pages
149-156
Funding
The paper was published with support from the Baltic-German University Liaison Office from funds of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License