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Traditional, virtual, and digital intermediaries in university-industry collaboration: exploring institutional logics and bounded rationality

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  • Albats, Ekaterina
  • Alexander, Allen T.
  • Cunningham, James A.

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University-industry collaboration now extends beyond traditional intermediary structures and logics, enabled by more contemporary virtual networks and digital formats. This however poses new strategic and operational challenges for effective and responsive knowledge transfer.

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  • Albats, Ekaterina & Alexander, Allen T. & Cunningham, James A., 2022. "Traditional, virtual, and digital intermediaries in university-industry collaboration: exploring institutional logics and bounded rationality," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).
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    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121470
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