“…The channels of interaction involve hiring recent graduates, conferences, personnel training, patents, prototypes, licensing, incubators, spin-offs, joint and cooperative ventures. Nevertheless, the most common are traditional channels, involving publications, conferences and consultancy (Barletta et al, 2017;Lemos and Ferraz, 2017;De Fuentes and Dutrénit, 2012;Torres et al, 2011;Arvanitis, Kubli and Woerter, 2008;Arvanitis, Sydow and Woerter, 2008;Bekkers and Bodas, 2008;Arza, 2010;Dutrénit and Arza, 2010;D'Este and Patel, 2007;OECD, 2005).…”