This article focuses on how academic and industrial leaders view central aspects of the initiation, collaboration process, and the outcomes in government-funded R&D projects. In much previous work on university-industry collaborations (UICs), universities or researchers and/or firms have been studied without any direct reference to the other party, thus neglecting the fact that the motivations, perceptions, and actions involved in UICs are two-sided at least. In contrast, this study builds on interviews with academic-industry project leader pairs to identify how both sides perceive the initiation, interaction, conditions, and outcomes of the collaborative project. While there is unexpected overlap in both parties’ perceptions of goals and utilities of the collaboration, there is also a clear tendency for academics to stress the less tangible or distant factors (e.g., ‘a culture’, ‘priorities’, or general university support), while industry actors emphasize more tangible operative factors (e.g., collaborative networks, timing issues, having project owners and conflict resolution procedures). This might illustrate different cultural or professional mores as well as different notions of what types of efficiencies to seek collaborative R&D in general.

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硬币的两面：产学合作项目中的联合项目负责人互动

本文重点介绍学术界和工业界领袖如何看待政府资助的研发项目的启动、合作过程和成果的核心方面。在之前许多关于大学与产业合作 (UIC) 的工作中，大学或研究人员和/或公司在没有直接参考另一方的情况下进行了研究，因此忽略了一个事实，即 UIC 中涉及的动机、看法和行动是两个——至少站在一边。相比之下，本研究建立在对学术-行业项目负责人配对的访谈之上，以确定双方如何看待合作项目的启动、互动、条件和结果。虽然双方对合作的目标和效用的看法出乎意料地重叠，学术界也有明显的倾向，强调不太明显或遥远的因素（例如，“文化”、“优先事项”或一般大学支持），而行业参与者则强调更具体的操作因素（例如，协作网络、时间问题，拥有项目所有者和冲突解决程序）。这可能说明了不同的文化或专业习俗，以及关于寻求合作研发的效率类型的不同概念。