What is Collaborations

Collaboration between technology firms and universities is a concern that requires an in-depth study. In this chapter, a review was done to investigate factors affecting technology firms and universities. The review underscores several factors that should be considered in the said collaborations. These are institutional factors, relationship factors, output factors, and framework factors. Institutional factors were identified as resources, structure, and willingness to change. Relationship factors were identified as communication, commitment, trust, and culture; output factors were identified as objectives and knowledge and technology transfer; framework factors were listed as environment, contracts and intellectual property rights, and geographical distance. Future research should investigate the relationship between different factors and different phases of a collaboration. Further investigations should be done to look at the effect of collaborations between universities and technology small and medium-sized enterprises.