Drawing on inter-organizational relations (IORs), the knowledge-based view (KBV), and the resource-based view (RBV) perspectives, this paper explores the relationship between partner complementarities, partner attributes, coordinating factors and relationship factors, together with a broad conceptualization of knowledge transfer effectiveness, consisting of research outcomes, development through tacit knowledge transfer, commercialization, and efficient coordination (RDCE model) in the university-industry context. The objectives of the study ...