ИСТИНА

Existing ICT knowledge sharing platforms among scientific/teaching communities are well developed and enable peer-to-peer (“university-university”) sharing and accumulation of knowledge that meet university community requirements. The capacity building in this “university-to-university” knowledge sharing systems lays predominantly in direction of extra financing to expand subscriptions to existing databases and to increase participation at international conferences/seminars. However, in the field of “universities-to-enterprises” knowledge/skills transferring there is another situation among requirements of universities communities, enterprises, and enabling infrastructure for peer-to-peer knowledge/skills sharing. Universities’ researchers/teachers form and hold potential intellectual value for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) where universities structures could be regarded as mediums for this value transfer. At the current research authors identify current situation with “university-to-SMEs” value exchange: identify and analyze needs of the universities’ and SMEs’ staff in values exchange in the form of research, consulting or other named service contracts; identify capacity building potential by crowdsourcing practices.