This paper investigates the development of collaboration modes between university and local industry, within a regional system having a diffused innovation process. As a case study, we analyse into an appreciative framework the roles of a medium-sized university as producer of knowledge, intermediary organisation and regional orchestrator over time, ultimately assuming a leading role in two specific university-industry programmes supporting the motor vehicle industry of Emilia–Romagna (IT). The paper contributes to the University-Industry stream of research by identifying the factors and mechanisms underpinning the evolution of university’s role in its collaboration with local industry, by the time assuming a leading and central role in spreading innovative technology into the regional system. Our findings provide managerial and policy makers contributions, and could be extended to other similar medium-tech industry for supporting diffusion of knowledge and innovation processes.

The multiple roles of universities in U-I collaborations: The case of Emilia–Romagna motor vehicle industry / Tagliazucchi, Giulia; Marchi, Gianluca; Gherardini, Francesco; Leali, Francesco. - In: JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT. - ISSN 0923-4748. - 62:101645(2021), pp. 1-16. [10.1016/j.jengtecman.2021.101645]

The multiple roles of universities in U-I collaborations: The case of Emilia–Romagna motor vehicle industry

Tagliazucchi, Giulia;Marchi, Gianluca;Gherardini, Francesco
;
Leali, Francesco
2021

Abstract

This paper investigates the development of collaboration modes between university and local industry, within a regional system having a diffused innovation process. As a case study, we analyse into an appreciative framework the roles of a medium-sized university as producer of knowledge, intermediary organisation and regional orchestrator over time, ultimately assuming a leading role in two specific university-industry programmes supporting the motor vehicle industry of Emilia–Romagna (IT). The paper contributes to the University-Industry stream of research by identifying the factors and mechanisms underpinning the evolution of university’s role in its collaboration with local industry, by the time assuming a leading and central role in spreading innovative technology into the regional system. Our findings provide managerial and policy makers contributions, and could be extended to other similar medium-tech industry for supporting diffusion of knowledge and innovation processes.
2021
12-ago-2021
62
101645
1
16
The multiple roles of universities in U-I collaborations: The case of Emilia–Romagna motor vehicle industry / Tagliazucchi, Giulia; Marchi, Gianluca; Gherardini, Francesco; Leali, Francesco. - In: JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT. - ISSN 0923-4748. - 62:101645(2021), pp. 1-16. [10.1016/j.jengtecman.2021.101645]
Tagliazucchi, Giulia; Marchi, Gianluca; Gherardini, Francesco; Leali, Francesco
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