Cooperative research arrangements studies

The focus of that comment is cooperative efforts and most recent reports of task forces or study groups on relations between the industrial and academic communities have concentrated their attention on cooperative research activities the more bold have recommended jolnt/collaborative research ventures and several spectacular examples of such new arrangements might be cited. 

A manager from the Celanese Corporation discusses (1) current mechanisms of industry/university cooperation (2) barriers to cooperation (3) suggestions for improvement of the interface. Leans heavily on the 1978 NYU study of industry/ university connections. His suggestions Include more effective communication to professors by companies of their research Interests greater personnel movement—including permanent career changes—between the sectors university establishment of interdisciplinary research centers experimentation with novel joint arrangements. 

I have your kind letter of May 13 and have discussed with Dr. Aydelotte, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, the matter of my cooperation with the Research and Development Division of the Navy. Dr. Aydelotte approved heartily of my participating in your research operations. He and I both feel that the individual contract would be most suitable, and I agree fully with the arrangements outlined in the enclosed letter from Dr. Aydelotte. 

The evolution of the NMR machine is very similar to that of the x-ray crystallography machine. Most individual laboratories can no longer afford such a gigantic machine. Cooperation must be arranged for researchers so that they conduct their preliminary work on smaller NMR spectrometers in their own institutions and then proceed to use bigger machines when available in other laboratories to complete their study. This is also similar to working with x-ray crystallography today. 

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