Science-industry networks for transfer of knowledge in Mexico, United States and Canada: institutional and technological regimes and intermediation mechanisms

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the technology and knowledge transfer networks established between science and industry. The research as sumes that the quality of those links depends on the organizational and institutional complexity of intermediation instances that link knowledge users and producers. From the sociological perspectives of Coleman and Burt, this study reconstructs the notion of intermediation with the aim to generate an analytical framework useful to understand the main characteristics, possibilities and obstacles of boundary and intermediary organizations related