Cooperation as a competitive advantage: Public private partnership in R&D

Abstract

This paper is aimed at evaluation the current situation of cooperation of private companies with public research organizations and it gives recommendations for improvements in this area. The main reason of low level cooperation of the university sector with enterprises is that this form of cooperation has not a long tradition in the Czech Republic and is not supported from the academic sector actively. At the present innovative enterprises cooperate on innovation especially together with suppliers and customers. Unfortunately there is not a deeper cooperation between innovative firms and public research organizations. Appropriate tools to promote collaboration between companies and public research could be tax deductions for companies that purchase results from public research organizations, innovation vouchers, or programs that promote long-term cooperation or horizontal mobility programs and counselling.