Overview

Are you making the most of university connections? Universities and industry organisations have traditionally maintained informal ways of working together, such as student internships, curriculum development and industry sponsored research.

Over the past ten years there has been growing enthusiasm in both industry and universities for closer links. Many partnerships are already well established and flourishing but for companies and institutions new to partnering, it is not always clear how best to start out. Indeed, even established partnerships often find that there is more that could be done on both sides to increase the mutual benefits.This series of workshops has been designed to share good practices in Industry-University interaction. Experienced speakers will describe their own activities and highlight principles for effective and efficient partnerships. There will also be round table sessions for participants to exchange experience and problems with each other.These events are intensely practical and intended for practitioners - people who have the task of making partnerships work. Presenters at these workshops will discuss and aim to answer questions such as:

- Why collaborate? What are the benefits?
- How should we initiate, and then operate, a collaboration?
- What makes a collaboration successful?

Confirmed speakers include Industry Managers of University Partnerships, University Directors of Corporate Relationships and; Representatives of Government Agencies. Each speaker will share their experiences of effective approaches to building and making the most of industry-university partnerships. Some of the issues to be addressed will include how to understand the different, and sometimes conflicting, incentives and working cultures in both industry and university; and how to balance excellence in research and education with commercial objectives.

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