University-Industry interactions, those rewarding yet intangible contacts between and among the academic, industrial and public sectors, have gained the attention of national, regional, and local authorities because they are important for strengthening the capacity of firms to innovate. In regions that seek to build a strong science base to represent an external source of knowledge for firms, universities are taking more active part of the socioeconomic transformation. This new role in their local and regional economy requires university researchers to face new internal as well as external...