In support of applied reasearch the industry and business collaboration is often source of opportunities side-by-side with academic excellence.
Hi Eduard,
I agree with the two preceding responses. Also, you might consider the FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis as a case study and starting point as a practical example. Here's the link to the "About" page .... http://www.memphis.edu/fedex/about.php
Good luck!
--Adrian
It is important to understand collaborating parties' interests before "building close collaborative research and academic bridges between high ranking universities & High-tech Industry?"
Universities' interests:
- students get know-how lectures and practice from technologies and sciences' front lines; that increases the quality of professional education, and gives students an understanding of what an every day professional life is all about;
- universities may get money from businesses for giving them several advantages - businesses can identify the most skilled students for future job offerings well before their graduation; such students get appropriate initial training, and hopefully attractive experience about companies they may work in the future; students can be used as part time interns until their graduation;
- universities' staff and business reps communication improve teachers and administration understanding of strategic shifts of requirements in professional domains.
Business interests:
- launching feasibility studies involving students and the teaching staff;
- training own employees to supervise interns and new initial grade employees with the eye on their possible supervisory career roles;
- early identification of the future employment candidates;
- involving university research staff in helping businesses to shape and market fundamental aspects of new product achievements in the ongoing business product developments.
Governments: used to encouraging such partnerships by allocating grants and other resources to promote such collaborations, which is in the best interest of both collaborating partners.
It is just a brief overview. There are numerous other mutual interests making such collaboration a mutually attractive combination.
Hi Eduard,
I agree with the two preceding responses. Also, you might consider the FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis as a case study and starting point as a practical example. Here's the link to the "About" page .... http://www.memphis.edu/fedex/about.php
Good luck!
--Adrian
Hi,
I agree with the colleagues. They provide best practices to the issue. we did not ignore the super successful example of the Silicon Valley. Really, any university has to build a viable entrepreneurial ecosystem for bringing Talent, Capital and technology. Several scholars conceived the triple and the Quadruple helix concept.
see for example this:
https://www.triplehelixassociation.org/
Good luck.
The collaboration between leading Universities and High Technology Industry provides huge opportunities for cutting edge technologies to unlock undiscovered potentials and innovations to address rising unemployment as well as the social-development problems
Hi Eduard,
I will associate "leading Universities" to Product and "High Technology Industry" as Producer. Product plus Producer are powerful tools to intensify a new project.
The bridging can be better modeled in creation of an environment for close social contacts between the parties and to clear every stakeholder about others capability of soling industrial problems. The industrial needs counselling to get himself conscious that he or she needs expertise to brief then about their problems and then convince him/her about he capability of the experts to successfully handle the problems.
An organization that I have consulted for, works in the areas of internet-of-things and embedded systems. They have close collaboration with a high-ranking engineering institute. Some of the steps that have worked for this organization are: a few members of the academic faculty working in the institute are advisers to the company, and work in product design & research projects together; a few senior employees of the company regularly take lectures for students at the institute, and sponsor projects for the students; the company recruits fresher employees and interns from the institute; a few faculty members and some teams within the company work jointly in a few client services projects.
The institute as well as the company members thus ensure they together stay abreast of relevant client needs, changing technologies and new knowledge areas.
You ask an interesting question.
You can trawl the coopetition field. Here is one paper I am aware of, but I am sure there are many more.
Wu, J. (2014). Cooperation with competitors and product innovation: Moderating effects of technological capability and alliances with universities. Industrial Marketing Management, 43(2), 199-209.
Strategy that may work could be by identifying areas of mutual interests and benefits. Instead of asking people what they can do to you, you should probably study or find out what are the pressing needs of the other party. People are always interested in knowing how somebody can help them in the areas where they facing major challenges. So depending where you, in industry or in academics, identify the pressing needs of the other poeple on the other side. Bring your strenghts up to offer solutions where they are feeling need for help. Remember, patience and perceiveranc are keys to the success in developing collaborations whether acadeic or commercial.
I have been studying this topic for a long time, and I came across many perspectives on the generic question you have asked. Among others, my observations on the path has been insightful.
Most observers see direct paths and links; I find an indirect path. University to industry flow; industry to university flow; mediation flow. Those in a system and non-linear thinking refer to these interaction structures and behaviours in them.
However, in high technology sectors, I observed new patterns. Indeed unviersity-industry relations reflect high technology or science-based collaboration. I observed that university to industry, and then industry to university occures in two contexts. First, when the firms unwilling to share their knowledge--university becomes the mediator. Second, in international university-industry knoweldge, the firms-university-industry path makes a good strategic start.
This is one answer, and it is from a structural perspective. Behavioural answers addresses the issue 'actors what they do with those structures'.
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