When Collaboration Bridges Institutions: The Impact of University–Industry Collaboration on Academic Productivity

Michaël Bikard
Michaël Bikard
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0298-7246
Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department, London Business School, London, NW1 4SA, United Kingdom;
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Keyvan Vakili
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Keyvan Vakili
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Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department, London Business School, London, NW1 4SA, United Kingdom;
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Florenta Teodoridis
Florenta Teodoridis
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
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Michaël Bikard

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0298-7246

Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department, London Business School, London, NW1 4SA, United Kingdom;

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Keyvan Vakili

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Keyvan Vakili

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Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department, London Business School, London, NW1 4SA, United Kingdom;

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Florenta Teodoridis

Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089

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Published Online:9 Nov 2018https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2018.1235

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Michaël Bikard, Keyvan Vakili, Florenta Teodoridis (2018) When Collaboration Bridges Institutions: The Impact of University–Industry Collaboration on Academic Productivity. Organization Science 30(2):426-445.

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All authors contributed equally. For helpful comments and suggestions, the authors thank seminar participants at the Wharton Technology and Innovation Conference, Strategy Science Conference, West Coast Research Symposium of Technology Entrepreneurship, and Academy of Management Conference. They also thank senior editor Rajshree Agarwal and anonymous reviewers for valuable and constructive feedback on the paper.

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