Abstract
The overall objective is to provide recommendations for actions customized for specific, homogenous groups of companies and university researchers. Current schemes do not provide possibilities to approach companies and university researchers with a well defined portfolio of recommendations. This results in the need to set up a typology, which allows the identification of such recommendations. Suited criteria, which the typology depends on, have to be determined, i.e. size of companies, age of university researchers, barriers and motives, location of companies and others. Additionally one has to bear in mind the usability of the typology. The typology should be feasible with as little information as possible to keep efforts to gather relevant data as small as possible. Based on such a typology, recommendations for actions can be worked out.