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Managing the university third strand innovation process? Developing innovation support services in regionally engaged universities

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Universities increasingly provide assistance to innovating firms, particularly in less successful regions lacking other support providers. Universities have to develop such support, just as consultancies learn to work with clients. In this paper, we use an innovation framework to explore how universities learn about developing such services, and the barriers they have to address to improve the development of such services.

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Benneworth, P., Dawley, S. Managing the university third strand innovation process? Developing innovation support services in regionally engaged universities. Know Techn Pol 18, 74–94 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12130-005-1006-y

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