How Industry Works with MIT
Sustained industry partnerships depend on listening to the corporate partners and designing a holistic response to communicate the value as well as maximize the efficiency of the partnership. In this video, Todd Glickman shares MIT’s structure and approach to maximizing industry engagement.
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Compliance Matters
Jeffrey Steltzer (GTRC) and Kenya Pierre (Kimberly Clark) tackle why compliance matters, reviewing top compliance concerns, when and how to address them, techniques to ensure transparent operations with industry partners, and internal alignment between institutional departments.
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Sourcing Technology from External Partners
Understanding the needs and wants of a corporate partner will help academic institutions deliver the value needed to form long term relationships with their corporate partners. Austin Kozman (PepsiCo) and Connie Armentrout (Monsanto) discuss how corporations structure their organizations, where they look to find innovative technology partners and how they manage the process of collaboration.
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Contracting and Administrative Issues
Jilda Garton (Georgia Tech) and Dennis Fortner (Northrop Grumman) cover typical contractual stumbling blocks in negotiating research agreements, comparing and contrasting academic and industry perspectives and sharing standard approaches for tackling contracting and administrative issues like F&A, budgeting, managing project scope, timelines and expectations.
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Building Innovation Ecosystems
Building innovation ecosystems will not only address today’s challenges but also position us for sustainable economic competitiveness in the future. In this video, Grace Wang (NSF) discusses the key components of innovation ecosystems and shares her perspective on government’s role in building and expanding these ecosystems.
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IP Matters, Federal Regulations and Other Factors
Todd Sherer (Emory University) and Connie Armentrout (Monsanto) discuss contract terms (both good and bad) that may be strong starting points for discussions about IP ownership.
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Developing a Strategy to Engage with Corporations
Debbie Radasch (Boeing) describes how universities can develop strategies to engage with industry, explaining the motives for industry partnerships with academia, how industry searches for partners, and the importance of defining expectations.
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UIDP21 Meeting Recap Video
The focus of the meeting in October, 2015 was on University-Industry-National Lab partnerships. We interviewed a few presenters while we were there, to share a few take-aways with those who were unable to attend the meeting in person.
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UIDP21 National Lab Town Hall
This forum, held at UIDP21 in Knoxville, TN, brought together eight representatives from US national labs to speak about their university-industry-national lab collaborations.
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Siemens and UNC Charlotte: Collaboration in Action
The relationship between Siemens and UNC Charlotte has evolved into a true strategic partnership. This video, produced by the two organizations, is the first in a series of videos showcasing UIDP member organizations’ U-I collaboration successes.
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