My collaborators and I have been conducting methodological research on industry-academia collaborations. The followings are several example papers in this direction:

• Characterizing industry-academia collaborations in software engineering: evidence from 101 projects, 2019

• Successful engagement of practitioners and software engineering researchers: Evidence from 26 international industry-academia collaborative projects, 2019

• Worlds apart: industrial and academic focus areas in software testing, 2017

• What industry wants from academia in software testing? Hearing practitioners’ opinions, 2017

• Industry-academia collaborations in software engineering: an empirical analysis of challenges, patterns and anti-patterns in research projects, 2017

• Industry–academia collaborations in software testing: experience and success stories from Canada and Turkey, 2017

• Challenges and best practices in industry-academia collaborations in software engineering: A systematic literature review, 2016