To improve the capture of brand-new technical understanding, numerous business are participating in tactical partnerships with universities. While such collaborations typically produce intriguing research study results - an informative technical paper, a proposed procedure or a brand-new computer system code, for example - these results have little or no company effect. The authors report, just 40 % of the jobs in the partnerships that they studied led to an observable and usually concurred upon favorable result on the getting involved business's competitiveness or performance.
The authors report the findings of a research study to determine management practices for industry-university collaboration that can enhance the effect of university research study for a business. Based on their research study, they obtain 7 "finest practices"that will take full advantage of the opportunities that teaming up with a university on a research study job will produce concrete advantages for the business.
PUBLICATION DATE: July 01, 2010 PRODUCT #: SMR360-HCB-ENG
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