The university-industry axis of interaction is a natural and robust element of stakeholder engagement, particularly in an innovation context. As such, universities serve as sources of new people and ideas for corporations. University-industry collaborations can serve as lynchpins for businesses seeking to open up new avenues of engagement with the broader innovation ecosystem. For example, universities may anchor engagement with and support of the early stages of the innovation process through to start-up formation, thus allowing industries a mechanism of reaching out and into the broader ecosystem. A new innovation ecosystem approach to corporate innovation can place an even greater reliance [...]