eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Business and Management Sciences 2333-4533 2022-05-12 10 3 105 112 10.12691/jbms-10-3-1 JBMS20221031 article Hui-Wen Yang 1 Shih-Chieh Fang fangsc@mail.ncku.edu.tw 1 Department of Business Administration, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan R&D collaboration with academia is widely perceived as the important way to develop breakthrough innovation and sustain competitive advantage in the knowledge-intensive industry. The outcome of collaborative innovation depends on the firm¡¯s strategy and management to overcome the challenges from different institutional logic and different disciplinary of knowledge domains. Based on literature review and a longitudinal study, we explored how firm effectively develop and maintain R&D partnership with academia. We highlighted the dynamics of collaborative sensemaking in the interdisciplinary collaboration. This study provided inspiration for practitioners to manage R&D partnership and achieve the desired outcome of industry-academia collaboration. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jbms/10/3/1/jbms-10-3-1.pdf R&D collaboration moral hazard cognitive distance collaborative sensemaking