COOPERATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND COMPANIES IN LESS DEVELOPED REGIONS OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC
COOPERATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND COMPANIES IN LESS DEVELOPED REGIONS OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Author(s): Klaudia Glittova, Juraj Šebo, Miroslav Šipikal
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Higher Education , Economic development
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: research cooperation; universities; less developed regions;
Summary/Abstract: Business and university cooperation, and in particular research cooperation, is one of the key factors for the development of innovation and subsequent economic growth. However, despite the positive benefits, cooperation in some countries, such as the Slovak Republic, is not very significant. The importance of cooperation is growing in regions where a critical mass of innovative enterprises is lacking. The aim of this article is to analyze the current state of cooperation between manufacturing companies and universities in less developed regions of the Slovak Republic. We examined this through a questionnaire survey conducted among manufacturing companies. The results show that universities are one of the least used sources of information for innovation for companies, and the overall low level of cooperation with them compared to other countries corresponds to this. Large companies and companies producing more complex products cooperate significantly more. At the same time, we did not find differences between domestic and foreign companies, nor are there any statistically significant differences between companies from different regions.

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