UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION AS A DRIVE FOR INNOVATION IN EUROPE – A LITERATURE REVIEW WITH A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH

Abstract

The aim of our study is to systematically review existing literature from the past five years on university-industry collaboration, with a special emphasis on their relation to innovation. We conducted a literature review with a systematic approach with the involvement of 29 studies from European countries, published between 2016 and 2020. Our results have revealed a rather homogeneous pattern of research studies focusing on university-industry collaboration in European countries.