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The aim of this article is to analyse the impact of academic capacity building on universityindustry-linkages (UILs) and to identify a set of critical success factors to guide improvements of university-industry knowledge transfers in developing countries. Extensive empirical evidence from a unique case of academic institution building and efforts to improve UILs in the context of a developing country-the Thai Higher Education Development Project (HEDP)-is used. Since the Thai HEDP combines the enhancement of both core academic missions and UIL activities within newly founded centres, it provides an interesting case study to support the cross-fertilization of ideas and academic entrepreneurship. The article is organised as follows: (i) A generic overview of UILs in Thailand is

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