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This study empirically analyzes the relationship between collaboration and productivity after examining the level of collaboration between large scaled enterprises and SMEs of Korea with an assessment of collaboration index around the U.S. financial crisis period. For empirical analysis, the relationship map is redesigned two-dimensionally including the value chain and collaborating field showing the work-flow of large scaled enterprises and SMEs. In each cell, the collaboration items are established by using the spot interview. Collaboration index is finally calculated as scoring the collaboration items into the standard value with MAX-MIN method. As a result of measuring collaboration index by using the survey on 125 of large enterprises and 1,000 of SMEs, its level dropped drastically in 2008 compared to that in 2007. Although the level of collaboration has been recovered in 2009 compared to that in 2008, it is still below the level before the U.S. financial crisis period. In addition, it is analyzed that a change of productivity is positively fluctuated in response to changes in the level of collaboration.