Building trust in university–industry relations: evidence from six cases of collaboration for research and innovation in Lombardy

The collaboration between university and industry under the institutional arrangement of the University Third Mission has been widely investigated by scholars and, more recently, with an increasing focus on the importance of trust. In this line of research, based on the study of six cases of collaboration in one of the more economically developed regions of Italy, this article aims at analysing how trust is produced – or constructed – by actors involved in the collaborative relationships to identify different processes, factors, dynamics by which such a construction takes place, shape and content, and to discuss its contribution to the rise and maintenance of such collaborations.

在大学第三使命（University Third Mission）的制度安排下，产学研合作长期以来受到学者们的广泛研究，而近期的相关研究愈发聚焦于信任的重要性。本文依托意大利某经济较为发达地区的6个产学研合作案例，旨在剖析合作关系参与主体如何生成（或构建）信任，以识别此类信任构建所涉及的不同过程、影响因素与动态机制，并探讨信任对这类合作关系的兴起与维系所产生的贡献。