Performance factors of university-industry R+D+I cooperations: Determinants of an open innovation organizational strategy

Research cooperation alliances are open innovation strategies that enable the flow of knowledge among strategic partners favoring the technological development of high added value. Research and development partnerships “under the same roof” between universities and companies are a practice of this type. In general, these types of relationships have numerous benefits and challenges inherent in the nature of these organizations, so that the success and failure of these organizations is determined by a set of factors that influence, in a different way, their performance. In this sense, the objective of this article is to identify and typify consensus in the scientific literature on performance factors of alliances for university-industry research cooperation. The methodology used in this work was the systematic review of the literature about the topic in the Scopus database for the identification of the contributions and, to carry out the typification, content analysis was used with the support of a qualitative analysis software and workshops with experts. As a result of this research, a typology of performance factors of university-industry partnerships is presented. The main classification is composed of fourteen categories: one referring to the environment of the organizations, five to internal aspects of them and eight to specific components of the interaction. The factors were subcategorized for a greater practicality of the typology in the management of the cooperations. Although all factors do not influence alliances, it is expected that this classification will facilitate the decision-making processes of universities, companies and cooperation management units, so that these points can be considered as key to success-failure, proven in global cases.