Carleton University
Technical Report TR-200
January 1992
Industry and Academic Links in Local Economic Development: A Tale of Two Cities
Helen Lawton Smith & Michael Atkinson
Abstract
In both the U.K. and Canada it has been identified that collaboration between industry and academia is a critical factor in technological growth. Using the locations of Oxford and Ottawa, both being major sites of Higher Education and Technological Enterprise, the factors which facilitate successful linkages between firms and universities are investigated. The results are based on surveys and interviews of parties on both sides of the divide and in both regions. They show that local factors are of paramount importance to the success of such linkages.