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UIDP Webinar: From Insights to Impact | Building Smarter Industry Partnerships with Digital Science

Industry partnerships are more important than ever, but identifying the right opportunities can be difficult when valuable information is spread across multiple systems and teams. This webinar with Digital Science explored how research institutions can use data-driven insights to identify promising partners, uncover new collaboration opportunities, benchmark against peers, and respond to industry interest more effectively. This session also included a look at Dimensions Industry Partnerships, a solution built on the world’s largest interconnected research database. The database brings insights together into a single, traceable source of truth. Participants had the opportunity to discover new strategies for strengthening industry partnerships and learn how research intelligence can support more informed, proactive engagement.

Discussion topics included:
The Partnership Visibility Gap: Challenges of fragmented partnership data and its impact on engagement teams and institutional leaders.
From Reactive to Strategic: How a connected view of publications, patents, and collaboration history helps teams respond with evidence instead of instinct.
Benchmarking & Early Signals: Comparing institutional strengths against peers and spotting company interest before it becomes an enquiry.

Originally aired,
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Speakers
Shane Jackson, Digital Science
Hannah Bentley (Moderator), Queen Mary University of London

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