“…A closer look at the research objectives of different publications on channels reveals two terminologies used by researchers. One is the channels of knowledge transfer (Zavale & Macamo, 2016;Alexander & Martin, 2013;Olmos-Peñuela et al, 2014;Bekkers & Bodas Freitas, 2008;Arza et al, 2015), the other is the channels of interaction (Ramos-Vielba & Fernández-Esquinas, 2011;D'Este & Patel, 2007;Zaharia, 2017;Arza & Vazquez, 2010;Chaves et al, 2015;De Fuentes & Dutrénit, 2012;Dutrénit, De Fuentes & Torres, 2010). Except for Chaves et al (2015) who made a net distinction between types of interaction from what was referred to as channels of information for knowledge transfer, other researchers considered those terminologies to mean the same and therefore proposed a similar list of channels.…”