Government Support as a Determinant of Successful University-Enterprise Collaboration

The University-Enterprise Collaboration -UEC-is a mechanism required to transfer knowledge between the two instances. In this research, the main problems faced by this relationship and the role of the government, an actor identified in the study as fundamental in view of what has been found in several countries, are analyzed. This is undertaken in order to identify which elements must be considered in order to strengthen this cooperative scheme. To achieve this objective, the contributions of many important authors were subjected to a comparative analysis. This made it possible to identify the ten elements that have to be considered in order to strengthen the UEC. The most important element of all is revision of the legal and institutional framework.