Interconnectivity between academic organizations and established firms for a strategic and knowledge fostering purpose

The literature has traditionally explained the main reasons behind the development of innovation practices in enterprises as motivated by potential outcomes in terms of innovation performance (Hagedoorn, 1993), technological evolution (Rosenkopf and Nerkar, 2001), product introduction (Laursen and Salter, 2006), and the types of collaborations they engage in (Tsai and Wang, 2009).