%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2017 %T Educational Involvement in Innovative University–Industry Collaboration %A Leena Kunttu %K academic involvement %K educational involvement %K innovation %K knowledge transfer %K university–industry collaboration %X The positive link between university research and industrial innovation has been widely recognized among academics and industrial practitioners. A remarkable volume of previous research emphasizes the importance of the transfer of academic knowledge into the industrial domain. In this sense, it is surprising that the role of university education is an almost neglected topic in the research concerning university–industry collaboration, despite education and the creation of knowledge being a primary goal of universities and providing great potential in terms of improving competences. This study presents a case study that analyzes educational involvement in nine long-term university–industry relationships. In all the cases, the research collaboration between industrial firm and university research group is directly associated with close educational involvement. The aim of the case analysis is to understand mechanisms and practices of educational collaboration that facilitate relational learning and innovation development in university–industry relationships. The forms of educational involvement studied in this article include student projects, thesis projects, jointly organized courses, and tailored degree courses. The findings of the study reveal a number of educational collaboration practices that may facilitate relational learning, creation of new knowledge, as well as innovation development in university–industry relationships. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 7 %P 14-22 %8 12/2017 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1124 %N 12 %1 University of Vaasa Leena Kunttu is an innovation researcher at the University of Vaasa in Finland. She received her PhD degree in Information Technology from the Tampere University of Technology, Finland, in 2006. From 2007 to 2012, she served as Senior Manager in an area of innovation at the Nokia Corporation. During her career in Nokia, she led a number of collaborative projects between the company and external research institutes, such as universities. She also led and participated in projects that collected and analyzed field data from end users and customers to provide inputs for R&D. Since 2015, Dr. Kunttu has served as a researcher in the area of innovation at the University of Vaasa, while also carrying out PhD studies in industrial innovation. Her current research interests include university–industry collaboration, educational involvement, and the commercialization of university technologies. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1124