As part of contemporary Triple Helix operations, universities are more and more frequently asked to collaborate with other social actors to generate knowledge that supports their innovation and development activities and to foster economic growth. In addition to research and education tasks, universities are developing formal and informal collaborations with industrial organizations to fulfill the third mission of societal effectiveness and to receive funding from research grants. These university-industry research and development projects, at the societal level and from the viewpoints of policymakers and financiers, aim to create economic growth and to support the innovation and learning capabilities of the organizations, among other benefits. One key challenge to managing these collaborative activities between universities and other societal organizations is related to measuring and evaluating them. Therefore, this study focuses on supporting the future development of evaluation and performance measurement for the operational-level activities of university–industry–government relationships. The study explores the performance measurement practices currently used by universities and financiers and intends to increase the understanding of both current performance measurement practices and the challenges regarding university–industry (UI) collaboration projects. The empirical data for this study were gathered from UI research projects in Finland. As part of the management of university–industry–government relations and Triple Helix operations, the results of this study reveal some challenges in the evaluation and measurement of the collaborative projects in the three phases explored: before the project, during the project, and after the project. The study’s results indicate that UI collaboration projects’ performance evaluation practices are based mainly on the tasks promised in the projects’ applications. Furthermore, measurements are mainly used for external-reporting purposes. To support the future development of the evaluation and performance measurement of university–industry–government relations, some propositions for overcoming these challenges are presented, and the potential implications of the findings for scholars, university members, financier representatives, and policy makers are discussed.

作为当代三螺旋行动的一部分，大学越来越频繁地被要求与其他社会参与者合作，以产生支持其创新和发展活动并促进经济增长的知识。除了研究和教育任务外，大学还与工业组织开展正式和非正式的合作，以实现社会效益的第三个使命，并从研究资助中获得资金。从政策制定者和金融家的角度来看，这些大学-产业研发项目在社会层面旨在创造经济增长并支持组织的创新和学习能力，以及其他好处。管理大学和其他社会组织之间的这些合作活动的一个关键挑战与衡量和评估它们有关。因此，本研究的重点是支持大学-产业-政府关系运营层面活动的评估和绩效衡量的未来发展。该研究探讨了大学和金融家目前使用的绩效衡量实践，旨在加深对当前绩效衡量实践和大学-行业挑战的理解（UI ) 协作项目。本研究的实证数据来自芬兰的UI研究项目。作为大学-产业-政府关系和三螺旋运作管理的一部分，本研究的结果揭示了在探索的三个阶段（项目前、项目中和项目后）评估和衡量合作项目的一些挑战。该项目。研究结果表明，UI协作项目的绩效评估实践主要基于项目申请中承诺的任务。此外，测量主要用于外部报告目的。为了支持大学-产业-政府关系评估和绩效衡量的未来发展，提出了一些克服这些挑战的建议，并讨论了研究结果对学者、大学成员、金融家代表和政策制定者的潜在影响。