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Emergence of Governance Structure in Collaborative University–Industry R&D Programs

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Managing Collaborative R&D Projects

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This chapter explains how the governance structure of university–industry collaboration programs evolves while transitioning from the strategic planning phase to the execution and delivery phase. A transitional phase is introduced between the two official phases of the program life cycle, over which the Program and Project Management Office (PgPMO) emerges, providing tools to support the program governance. Along with this transition, the three main collaborators—university, industry, and government—change their roles to support achieving the goals of the collaboration. The four drivers for the emergence of governance structure are fairness, transparency, responsibility, and accountability, according to which the main actors in the governance of program change their roles switching between leadership, partnership, and serving other actors.

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  1. SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy

    Roya Derakhshan

  2. University of Coimbra, CEMMPRE, Coimbra, Portugal

    Gabriela Fernandes

  3. Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Mauro Mancini

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  1. University of Coimbra, CEMMPRE, Coimbra, Portugal

    Gabriela Fernandes

  2. University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Lawrence Dooley

  3. National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

    David O’Sullivan

  4. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Asbjørn Rolstadås

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Derakhshan, R., Fernandes, G., Mancini, M. (2021). Emergence of Governance Structure in Collaborative University–Industry R&D Programs. In: Fernandes, G., Dooley, L., O’Sullivan, D., Rolstadås, A. (eds) Managing Collaborative R&D Projects. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61605-2_11

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