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In the course of European integration, cross-border cooperation between science and enterprises becomes important. Following paper presents results of two sub-studies. 1st study aimed to identify factors promoting the occurrence of cross-border cooperation of small enterprises with research organisations. Empirical results from a sample of SMEs in Saxon-Czech borderland (SMEs; N = 263) – mainly belonging to the manufacturing sector – show, that i.e. willingness to collaborate, corporate innovation culture, enterprise’s absorptive capacity, positively perceived regional cooperation climate, adequate funding opportunities for collaboration and regional availability of qualified staff are factors contributing significantly to emergence of cross-border collaboration between firms and research organisations. 2nd sub-study investigated how collaboration between SMEs and research organisations proceeds. Main result of a qualitative study (N = 89) is a model of social roles describing tasks which are necessary for successful collaboration processes. Based on empirical results, strategic recommendations are deduced.
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All questionnaires, field manuals etc. published in: Krause-Juettler, G., Lohse, K., Jandova, A., Jerabek, M., Berrova, E. & Lauterbach, P.: Region und Innovation am Beispiel des sächsisch-böhmischen Grenzraums [Region and Innovation. Example of Saxon-Czech border area], Dresden/Prag, (2014).
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Krause-Juettler, G. (2019). Promoting Cross-Border Cooperation Between Science and Small Businesses as a Source of Innovation. In: Burduk, A., Chlebus, E., Nowakowski, T., Tubis, A. (eds) Intelligent Systems in Production Engineering and Maintenance. ISPEM 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 835. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97490-3_12
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