| Summary: | At the heart of the new research policies tending towards innovation, the Swiss Universities of applied sciences, recently promoted to tertiary academic rank, have been given, as primary mission, to extend their activities in Applied Research and Development. If scientific valorization of this kind of research is visible in current media and publications, it is not so apparent for the partnership itself or the processes which constituted its development in the first place. The analysis of the narrations of the protagonists of the partnership shows the phenomenon which illustrates the specificity of this activity, that valorization models are unable to grasp. Caught between regular practice, professional and scientific activities, subject also to the temporality of the process, partnership activities question the very concept of the knowledge which underlines the models of applied research.
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