“…The collaboration relevance for innovation is also highlighted in more extensive texts and researches, such as the Oslo Handbook, the OCDE Handbook (2005), the Pesquisa Industrial de Inovação Tecnológica (PINTEC) Handbook, the IBGE Handbook (2016), in Brazil, and the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) Handbook and the Innobarometer Survey Handbook, in Europe. Furthermore, some researches (considering only some of the most recent national surveys) deal with the collaboration for innovation (Kayser & Schreiber, 2013;Tuccori, Luppi, Carvalho & Santos, 2014;Faccin & Balestrin, 2015;Baggio & Wegner, 2016;Bastos & Britto, 2017), with the relationship between collaboration and innovation (Kuhl, 2012;Kuhl, Cunha, Maçaneiro & Cunha, 2016;Kuhl, Amarante & Maçaneiro, 2017), and others emphasize that the collaboration contributes to the innovative capacity (Malachias & Meireles, 2009;Mello et al 2008).…”