Joining evenly while remaining unlike: the influence of balanced inter-sectoral research collaborations on scientific performance

In EU collaborative projects, the type of outputs being produced is of different relevance to the partners. In our study it is thus not so much a matter of whether e.g., companies are represented in papers as co-authors, but in what way their project involvement impacts on the publications where the co-created knowledge is distributed. The results indicate that collaborative projects with similar efforts between the partners have greater scientific impact compared to projects where partners contribute unevenly.