Research and development activities are considered to generate and improve new technologies. This paper presents the relationship between academic and business environment in the field of research using the triple helix model and focuses on a comparison between economic and medicine researchers. Two focus groups were conducted in order to identify which are the most important aspects that determine the cooperation between academic environment and business environment regarding research activities. Despite the differences between these two universities, the conclusions reveal common characteristics of the cooperation between academic and business environment and the fact that is still room for improving this relationship.

An important issue of sustainable development of a country is the research that generates new and improved technologies. One of the most important promoters of research is the European Union, which included in its strategy to invest 3% from GDP in research. This paper focuses on the relationship between academic and business environment in the field of research. This paper presents the results of two focus groups conducted with economic and medicine researchers. The article begins by pointing out the strategy of EU regarding research, and then we present the Romanian national strategy, a short literature review is explaining the triple helix model.

academic research, focus group, triple helix,