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A s editors of the Handbook of Collaborative Management Research,we began this project with a firm belief based on our experience that broader and deeper collaboration between managers of organizations and academic researchers could yield significant benefits for both parties. Managers would learn much more about how organizations function and new approaches to managing complex systems, thereby improving their individual and organizational performance. Researchers would have access to organizations to discover and test new theories and hypotheses, thereby advancing knowledge and using it to enhance undergraduate, graduate, and executive education. What we didn't realize at the time was how much we would learn about collaborative management research from each other and from our colleagues who have contributed chapters to this volume. As we began work on the editorial statement and guidelines for the book, we quickly realized that we held different ideas of what collaborative management research entailed.As we tried to define what we meant by management and collaboration, we disagreed on some basic points. Did management include both profit and nonprofit organizations? Did it include the "management" of systems that weren't even formal organizations, such as regional economies?

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One practical result of the advent of the knowledge society has been an increased reliance on academicindustry partnerships as important sources for the creation of economic value. This paper argues that this renewed emphasis on knowledge has led to a shift in the nature of the relations between the academy and industry from sponsorship to partnership and the formation of new research institutions that allow researchers and practitioners to engage in continuous rather than problem based dialogue. These developments are illustrated by providing a case study based on the experience of one research team with its industrial partners. The paper presents results pertaining to some of the issues and challenges raised by continuous dialogue in partnerships, and emphasises the creative yet demanding implications of close collaboration between the two communities.