The interplay between the contextual conditions and the advancement of the technological maturity in inter‐organisational collaborative R&D projects: a qualitative study

This paper analyses the evolution of contextual conditions during advancement degree technological maturity innovative technical solutions and their interplay with R&D processes in setting collaborative inter-organisational publicly-funded projects. Extant literature investigated role for development process technologies across different settings, but has not yet been analysed detail same over levels maturity. It also how collaboration is affected by this interplay. To address gap, we put place exploratory qualitative research empirical projects that were funded EU's Research Innovation Framework Programmes. Such often advance several new constellations partners within project therefore provide rich data our analysis. The design a comparative multiple case study. We studied 5 developed 49 solutions, adopting grounded theory approach, through analysis documentation semi-structured interviews. non-technical found to be similar technologies, was significantly at stages Medium TRLs constituted watershed cooperation, whereas when going higher TRLs, intra-organisational context became dominant. As consequence, changes should anticipated planners managers avoid get stuck medium technology readiness levels. discuss implications policy interventions reaching intended.