Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>Business-science collaboration is essential for fostering innovation and economic development, particularly in rapidly evolving sectors like AI and Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. We study how to enhance the collaboration between firms and scientists given persistent barriers such as information frictions, behavioral biases, and high transaction costs. To address existing challenges, the research investigates the potential of matchmaking interventions. Specifically, it evaluates the <a href="https://total-croatia-news.com/news/business/scinergy/">SCINERGY '24 Pilot in Croatia</a>, designed to match firms with scientists possessing relevant expertise and provide comprehensive support throughout their collaborative endeavors. Matchmakers facilitate meetings, offer guidance, and assist in knowledge transfer on topics such as IP regulations and partnership agreements. Collaborative projects between matched pairs of scientists and businesses are undertaken during the matchmaking phase. 100 firms are randomly selected for support and 110 are in the control group. The difference in performance of the two groups of firms over time will be investigated by capturing differences in collaboration rates/ fields/ quality of collaboration, innovation outcomes, and firm growth. The study shall help improving the understanding of factors driving successful business-science partnerships. It shall offer causal and descriptive insights on the potential of interventions that enhance collaboration in academia and industry and through that on their potential to foster innovation and economic development, while also discerning differential effects for different firm types (e.g., w/o prior experience in collaborating with academia or w/o clear research support needs).</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/12992 Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Citation for use in academic references
