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Incentives for industry-science collaboration

Industry-science relationship is considered to be one of the crucial parts of an innovation system because of its positive impact on innovation and commercial performance. Extant studies show that a significant proportion of the products and processes that are currently sold and used could not have been developed without academic research. In order to foster collaboration between companies and scientists, the right set of incentives is needed. The purpose of the incentives is to "make it easy" for the players to efficiently start and carry out the cooperation which ends in a commercially viable result. However the degree to which any chosen incentive is accepted by industry will depend among other things on the intensity of firm’s existing cooperation, on importance of innovation for the firm, and on the level of market support from investors and demand from clients/customers. In this paper we examine a potential set of incentives and explore the degree to which they would be accepted by the industry. We use Potential Method to elicit firm’s preferences for given incentives and we seek to explain the difference in these preferences by the above firm/market factors. The paper is based on a survey of 190 Croatian enterprises performed in 2002.

Iindustry-science relationship; factor analysis; multi-criteria decision making; preference graph; potential method

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