RANKING EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES BASED ON THEIR LEVEL OF COLLABORATION WITH THE INDUSTRY: THE UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RESEARCH CONNECTIONS INDEX

Author(s):  
Milica Maricic ◽  
Nikola Zornic ◽  
Veljko Jeremic
1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Shattock

The author examines the case of the University of Warwick and its institutional strategies for partnership with a variety of external organizations. He argues that universities need to change their missions, and to show strong leadership and an enterpreneurial approach to adapt to their local, national and international markets. In particular, the paper looks at the considerable success of the Warwick Manufacturing Group in developing training programmes and research in partnership with industry.


2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 3938-3941
Author(s):  
Yin Han Gao ◽  
Zhan Yang An ◽  
Kai Yu Yang ◽  
Tian Hao Wang

Analyze of university-industry-research cooperation’s characteristics which the university is the main target, and each case has been specifically addressed, characteristics of the cooperation were discussed, and detailed analysis of the relationship between the characteristics of the main features of each. From the perspective of their own cooperation feature, further discusses the characteristics of cooperation.


Author(s):  
Joseph Naft

This chapter describes the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program, its genesis, operations, record, and impact. Founded in 1987, MIPS provides funding, matched by participating companies, for university-based research projects that help Maryland companies develop new products. Startup companies find the program attractive in leveraging their scarce resources in a non-dilutive, non-debt manner and effective in enlisting expert faculty and students in developing their company products. The State of Maryland finds the MIPS program attractive because of its significant economic impact and its high-multiple return of tax dollars to the State. The University System of Maryland faculty have embraced the program for the industry collaborations created and research funding provided. The effectiveness of the MIPS program is greatly enhanced by Maryland's robust innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem built up over decades, a build-up whose acceleration coincided with the 1983 creation of MIPS' parent organization, now known as the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute.


Science ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 232 (4756) ◽  
pp. 1361-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Blumenthal ◽  
M Gluck ◽  
K. Louis ◽  
M. Stoto ◽  
D Wise

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abeda Muhammad Iqbal ◽  
Saima Iqbal ◽  
Adnan Shahid Khan ◽  
Aslan Amat Senin

Innovations and inventions are not outcomes of single activity of any organization. This is a result of collaboration of different partners. The evaluation of collaborated research between university and industry has created the greatest interest amongst the collaboration researchers as it can determine the feasibility and value of the collaboration. Despite the enormous importance of this collaboration, there have been certain problems in successful collaboration, for instance issues related to time, trainings, differences in their perceptions, orientations and goals, intellectual property right issues, some other technological competency and fund and financial matters are the key constraints that generates some how proportional to this collaboration. Thus to tackle the basis of these problems and to analyse the strength and weaknesses of these technological linkage, evaluation of such collaboration is highly demanded. This paper intends to illustrate an evaluation model to evaluate the university-industry collaboration and to enhance their technological linkage. For bridging the model, four important variables, constraints, evaluation parameter, success criteria and tangible outcome has been identified. The novelty of this model is, it is cost and time efficient and can be applied for any university-industry research collaboration.


2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 604-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Canonico ◽  
Ernesto De Nito ◽  
Vincenza Esposito ◽  
Marcello Martinez ◽  
Mario Pezzillo Iacono

Purpose This paper aims to study knowledge integration mechanisms in an interdisciplinary research project. It develops the theoretical literature on the concept of knowledge integration, particularly the adoption of different organizational mechanisms. The research helps to explain how to adopt different integration mechanisms in the various steps of a typical university industry research project. Design/methodology/approach This research relies on a case study. The authors used three data collection techniques: internal document analysis, observation/site visits and semi-structured interviews. Documentary analysis was used to understand the organizational structure and to identify knowledge integration issues. Observation and site visits at university research laboratories were used to increase understanding on particular issues. Staff interviewed included managers and academic researchers. Findings Findings are primarily related to a better understanding of choices of knowledge integration mechanisms in a university industry research project. A crucial aspect was the level of mutual understanding of specialist knowledge. When project members were derived from different sides of the university-industry border, there was a major need for recurring to more structured knowledge integration mechanisms, even if the scientific background of participants was homogeneous. Originality/value Previous studies on the relationships between university and industry deals with the issue of governing the knowledge exchange on the border at a macro level; conversely, an interesting research gap is represented by knowledge integration mechanisms to be deployed on the university-industry border, especially at micro level. In this paper, the authors do not cope explicitly with university-industry coordination mechanisms but use the University-Industry border to study knowledge integration in interdisciplinary setting. The study is exploratory, which may be useful in generating future research hypotheses, connecting the features of research projects with the need to achieve knowledge integration.


2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 4501-4504
Author(s):  
Yin Han Gao ◽  
Le Gao ◽  
Kai Yu Yang ◽  
Tian Hao Wang

According to the university and the enterprise's own situation, put The demands of the enterprise as the guide, research on each factor research of university-industry-research cooperation mechanism based on colleges and universities. On the analysis of the obstacles of cooperative mechanism in China, at the same time, the countermeasures of each factor of the cooperation mechanism is studied. The purpose is to coordinate each factor of the university-industry-research cooperation systems, to realize the optimization target of the system, to explore and summarizes the countermeasures of sustainable development in the practice of industry-university-institute cooperation.


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