Industry-academia collaboration

An international effort and industry-academia collaboration, this volume features e.xpert contribu-lion.s, focusing on the contemporary. state-of-the-art concerning the many facets of the production of detergents and surfactants. 

This volume is a comprehensive treatise on the multidimensional issues involved, and represents an international industry-academia collaborative effort of many experts and authorities, worldwide, mainly from industry. As such. Part F Production, represents the state of the art concerning these multidimensional technological practices. 

Pantazidou, M., Anagnostopoulos, G.A. Tsatsanifos, C. 2008. Industry-academia collaboration produces geotechnical case studies for undergraduate instruction An... 

Part of the reason for the lack of natural product-based antifouhng alternatives is the necessity for expertise that historically is only found in an academic-industry research collaboration. The cross purposes of academia and business make it difficult to collaborate. Both academia and industry usually frown upon such research collaborations. The coatings industry usually does its research in-house and shies away from joint research and development programs. At the 10th International Congress, there was one report on isolation of natural products for prevention of larval settlement from an industrial source.140 This report was from scientists trained in academia and hired by a coatings company to do in-house studies of natural products. 

One of CDER s primary goals is to work collaboratively and cooperatively with industry, academia, and others to improve the drug development and review process. It also strives to provide consumers and health care providers with drug information that is vital to improving the public health. The topics listed below provide an overview of the various means of communicating with CDER. 

The emphasis on innovation and integrated science is further strengthened through collaborations. DuPont has, in recent years, established substantial alliances with various research entities around the world. The foremost example of this is the 38 million DuPont-led industry, academia, and government consortium for the development of renewable energy and feedstock technologies, known as the Integrated Corn-Based Bioproducts Refinery (ICBR) project. 

The BioPathways Consortium (table 7.1) is a group founded in 2000 by Eric Neumann and Vincent Schaechter. Its memberships include participants from industry, academia, government, and other research institutes, and its goals include developing and consolidating technologies for representation and communication of information concerning pathways and biochemical interactions. The BioPathways Consortium collaborates with the BioPAX Project. 

The topics of this book continue to be discussed in forums like the CP AC Summer Institute and the satellite workshops sponsored by CPAC. A successful CPAC sponsored workshop was held in Rome, Italy in March, 2006, and that concept will be continued with other workshops in the U SA and Europe that will be cosponsored by CPAC. Developments in the various areas of micro-instrumentation are embellished in gatherings like the CPAC Summer Institute and CPAC Satellite workshops. Additional value is obtained when synergistic collaborations result from the discussions. The concept of creating a forum where different technical disciplines from industry, academia, and government come together is important to moving a technical field ahead. This is particularly true in the microinstrumentation field, which has the ability to affect many aspects of a product life cycle - from the discovery, through development, and into production. 

This work was supported in part by a comprehensive program for personnel training and industiy-academia collaboration based on projects fimded by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan, the Global Center of... 

Industry-academia interaction has been going on at different levels for the past several years and inclndes industrial extension services, cooperative education, equipment donation, exchange of personnel and collaborative research progranunes. And these interactions have benefited the industry, institute and society in general. According to Pai et al. [2], this interaction can occur at three levels, which can be identified as ... 

In order to address the issues of FCVs mentioned above, including the need for cost reduction, large-scale research facilities are necessary, and a further industry-govemment-academia collaboration is expected to promote research and development activities and to leverage analyses and investigations. 

Acknowledgement. This work and the collaboration with Prolan Ltd. has been supported by the project CErtification of CRItical Systems (CECRIS, http //www.cecris-project.eu/), Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (lAPP) nr 324334, within the context of the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). 

The reinforcement mechanism has yet to be clarified, and therefore, industry/government-academia collaborations will help create new materials. 

FDA assessors and inspectors will all receive technical training that has been designed in collaboration with industry and academia. 

For HCS to be fully accepted by academia, several conditions will need to be fulfilled. Current HCS instruments are closed black boxes and their expensive maintenance contracts do not allow any hardware or software modifications for adaptation to the diverse needs of academic research. Academic research is typically more diversified than pharmaceutical industry research and the instruments need to be more customizable than they are now. In addition, the image and data formats need to be accessible and open. In academia data is shared between collaborators and will be analyzed with various, partly custom-made software. Therefore the data needs to be accessible and open. Lastly, the yearly costs of maintenance contracts and licenses are particularly difficult to finance in academic research that relies heavily on grants. Grants typically do not cover licensing costs or if they do, when the grant runs out, new sources of funding must be found. In reality, those costs must generally be covered by institutional funds. 

Interdisciplinary approaches tend to be viewed differently by industry and academia. A high interest in interdisciplinary collaboration has been shown in industry. The participants believe that students may like working in teams for research purposes but dislike working in teams on graded classroom projects. 

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