Comparative Analysis between the University-Business Linkage Methodologies. A Case Study

Abstract

The University-Company relationship is currently considered a key economic engine, since this synergy maximizes the use of each party's experience to contribute to the economic development of the country or the region. Therefore, the transfer of knowledge and technologies between the academic sector and the industry is expected to stimulate innovation, in order to solve real problems of the productive sector. Technological innovation is the result of a set of complex relationships between the actors that produce, distribute and apply knowledge of different areas. In this work, an analysis of the implementation of a University-Company linking methodology developed in Sweden, called AIMday, is carried out. In the first place, a study of the processes of interaction and transfer of technology between university and company is carried out, carried out both by the National University of Córdoba (UNC), and by the National University of the Coast (UNL). Then, the methodology developed in Sweden and its application in both universities is presented, making a comparative study of qualitative and quantitative type, which describes the possible advantages and disadvantages that each of these methodologies presents in its implementation.