The cooperation of the industry with the agents located in its geographical proximity is a key to the development of innovative territories. In this context, the purpose of this article is to shed light on the objectives that promote this cooperation, in particular on those unidentified in literature. The research was conducted in two methodological stages: a systematic review of the literature and a case study. Among the results obtained are a theoretical analysis framework of the interactions between industry and other agents of the regional innovation systems - RIS - and a relational capacity description of the oil industry in a Colombian region.