In what regards the study of the nature of collaborations, a very rudimentary analysis was carried out by the detection of the string ‘Univ’ in the name of organizations. One can envision a deeper study into the types of collaborations in the industry, which would serve even better the triple helix quantification. Here, a distinction between university-industry, industry-government, and government-university could be made. To do this, several natural language processing techniques (such as regex) would have to be used.