Innovation through University Collaboration

  Innovation  

A successful innovation process should ultimately create customers through the movement of ideas into the marketplace.  This is a complex journey that requires a unique mix of talent, technology, and motivation. University-Industry (U-I) collaborations are a great example of a complete system approach to the innovation process.

U-I Collaborations can lead to both short-term, incremental product improvements, and to breakthroughs that borne new-to-the-world products and spawn new industry. Through this process, they also create the human potential to drive ideas forward, and sustain a knowledge workforce. Both environments are very different in mission and function, yet they each can provide the vital components to innovate through collaboration---if done right.

In the past, both groups were largely separated, with academia pursuing novel interests, and industry leaning on corporate scientists to innovate. Luckily, both parties are now coming closer together through creative collaborations and embracing open innovation models and tactics that are demonstrating mutual benefits.

This web workshop is for those at high-tech companies and research institutions that are interested in innovative partnerships and will focus on the following focus areas:

• Primer in U-I relationships and a discussion on trends and collaborative opportunities
• Emerging U-I operational models from an assessment of 36 major research institutions
• Successful relationship-building approaches through the experiences of 102 industry leaders

Optimizing the approach to U-I collaborations through a case example of a Fortune 50 company

U-I Collaborations can lead to both short-term, incremental product improvements, and to breakthroughs that borne new-to-the-world products and spawn new industry. Through this process, they also create the human potential to drive ideas forward, and sustain a knowledge workforce. Both environments are very different in mission and function, yet they each can provide the vital components to innovate through collaboration---if done right.