The purpose of this research was to investigate possible factors that lead to value creation and future sustainability in the field of scientific collaboration management at higher education institutions (HEIs) level. Through a new validated questionnaire that includes the opinions of a variety of research collaborators and alike positions at different Saudi universities, the author argues the emergence of two interesting contradictory factors. A positive and significant effect of funding opportunities, but a lack of a significant strategy development that is planned around resilience. The university self-autonomy is considered as a major burden in maximizing scientific collaborations for HEIs and a major factor of public budget deficit. In addition, benchmarking analysis with elite institutions showed significant divergent across the collaboration spectrum. New studies in this area built on the present findings, may explore a balance between the strategy development and its financial implementation from different perspectives to get meaningful results that add real values and secure long – term sustainability.

Keywords: Collaboration, Value Creation, Resilient Strategy, Sustainability, GLM estimation, Benchmarking.

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