University-industry relationships

What Makes a Good University-Industry Relationship ... 

Gluck,K.S.Louis, et al., University-Industry Relationships in Biotechnology Implications for the University, Science 232 1361-1 366, 1986. 

Blumenthal, D. B., Gluck, M. E., Epstein, S., et aL, University-Industry Relationships in Biotechnology Implications for Federal Policy, Final Report to the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. DHHS Grant 100A-83, March 20, 1987. 

Who initiates university/industry relationships It was quite une qpected that in two-thirds of the cases the participants agreed that the irrpetus for the connection came frcm the university. Conpanies were seen as taking the lead in only about one-fifth of the cases. The ranainder of the cases were seen as nutually initiated. It is worth noting that one t pe of relationship did not exhibit this pattern of initiation. 

Analyzes policy objectives of attempts to increase flow of university-industry interactions, and examines current state of knowledge regarding effects of three broad types of university-industry relationships upon industrial innovation. Sets forth eight policy options. Bibliography. 

A useful review of the state of university-Industry relationships In pharmaceuticals by an official at Merck Sharp and Dohme International. 

A catalogue of existing university-Industry relationships with short descriptions of case examples. Assessment of contribution of each type to four phases of the innovation process (1) additions to knowledge/experience pool (2) development of new concepts (3) development of new products and processes and (4) market development. 

Useful brief compilation of statistics on the sources of support for and performers of R D, focusing on the university-industry relationship. Presents more detailed information on chemistry and chemical engineering. 

Valuable listings of eight major obstacles to a more fruitful university-Industry relationship, and six strategies for dealing with these problems. 

Two technical executives of Danish firms argue that because the political and social unrest of the sixties disrupted what ties there were between industry and academia, a dialogue should be Initiated to explore cooperative R D activities. Differences between the U.S. and European traditions relating to university-industry relationships are described (these are less developed In Europe). In addition, much of the post-war expansion of public funding for research resulted in the creation of a number of national research institutes which neither possessed a graduate program nor cooperated with industrial sectors. 

The Chairman of Manchester University s Council discusses university-Industry relationships, both in training and research. Describes a range of efforts currently underway by the 44 British universities to "sell themselves to industry."... 

The authors view the emergent phenomenology of university-industry relationships from a socialist perspective. 

Pake, George E. "Some Industrial Perspectives on the University-Industry Relationship." Council of Graduate Schools Communicator, 12, pp. 1-2, 8-10, April 1980. Revised version published in Physics Today, pp. 44-47, January 1981. 

Carter Administration actions to enhance basic research and stimulate industrial innovation have focused attention on the importance of formal university-industry cooperative relationships in science and engineering. This paper examines the status of and potential for university-industry research consortia and research partnerships and the current and prospective roles of the federal government in stimulating such relationships. A useful typology of university-industry relationships is presented. 

Explores implications of several aspects of university social and organizational structure for possible expansion of university-industry relationships. Five "exemplar options" are recommended. Bibliography. 

University-Industry Relationships-Dangers for Academic Research Bok, Dickson, Lepkowskl, Servos... 

In this paper, I will address two different perspectives on government-university-industry relationships. The first is collaboration on matters of policy through the operations of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable. I will describe the purposes, essential features, and accomplishments of the Roundtable. The second is programmatic collaboration in research and education. Here I will present the principal observations on university-industry cooperative programs that have emerged from several Roundtable activities on this topic. ... 

Key words University-industry relationships Technology transfer University research... 

There is a huge and still growing literature focusing on university-industry relationships. The objective of this section is to show how our contribution relates to this literature. We do not pretend that our scheme is exhaustive, but we think that an appropriate way to present the different approaches is to focus on the three elements that characterise university-industry relationships. The first element concerns firms. Several studies have looked at the economic impact of scientific research on the private sector the importance of the university as an external source of information used by firms to innovate and the characteristics of firms that benefit from academic research. The second approach is to study the channels used by both actors - university and industry -to exchange information, and the conditions favouring or blocking these interactions. The third approach focuses on universities and analyses the influence of these alliances on their evolution. 

The results of the tests do not seem to provide a clear-cut answer. On the one hand, there is no clear evidence to support the interpretation that entry into the world of university-industry relationships by new laboratories implies that these laboratories would be involved in shorter term, lower budget service oriented contracts. The non-persistent laboratories have a slightly higher share of services in their portfolio, but they are also the laboratories that are involved in longer-term contracts. On the other hand, there is not sufficient evidence to support the view that the 90s was a period of a structural change in relationships between ULP and firms characterised by changes in the types of contracts with all types of laboratories involved in more demand-supply, service oriented kinds of relationships with firms. 

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