Achieving Knowledge-Creating Companies in Mexico: the Advantage of University-Industry Alliances
  Karla Cedano, Manuel Martinez, Antonio Del Rio, Lorenzo Martinez 
 In  this  paper  we  focused  on  developing  a  methodology  to 
promote  innovation  through  industry-university  collaboration.  
So we analyzed two different scenarios. On one hand we have 
the  traditional  firm,  that  is  striving  to  survive  in  the  global 
knowledge-driven  economic  framework  and  on  the  other  we 
have world class research universities that are trying to find the 
best way to put their knowledge in the market place, fostering 
spin-offs  as  well  as  promoting  knowledge  transfer  to  the 
traditional   industry.   We   have   analyzed   the   behavior   of 
successful  high-technology  spin-offs,  and  knowledge  transfer 
experiences  worldwide.    In  particular,  we  have  focused  on  the 
management  paradigm  of  the  “knowledge  creating  company”, 
proposed by Nonaka [11], since it is one of the models that best 
describes  the  organizational  environment  in  such  successful 
experiences.  Finally, we present the methodology developed as 
a result of this study that is currently being applied in our State 
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