University-Industry Collaboration for the SDG's: Building future strengths.

With a present sense of urgency in taking actions towards sustainable development and the 17 goals, it is necessary to create functional partnerships in society. This study will discuss the university-industry collaboration (UIC), which we suggest needs new prerequisites. The innovation management problem we address is: How can UIC be organized to support transformative innovation? This paper will focus on understanding the expectations of different organizations of collaboration, new forms of working together, and incentives to support this transition. Data comes from two parallel surveys, based on the UIC framework from Ankrah & Tabbaa (2015). Tentative results show that expectations are of importance but vary, with industry waiting for academia to both address and progress with the SDGs while academia suggests industry to be leading the development. Respondents propose ideas concerning mutual learning rather than knowledge transfer. However, the incentives for creating such UIC conditions appear to be lacking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]