Collaboration between University and Industry

In order to maintain its competitiveness, a company must constantly innovate by, e.g., developing new technologies, new products, new processes, new markets…

 At the same time, universities accumulate, in the course of their public service, extensive know-how, essential in both teaching and research.

 Although different, those activities can often be complementary. In this case, such collaborations between university and industry usually lead to mutual benefit.

 Such collaborations may take on various shapes, such as:

• a research project;
• a doctorate thesis;
• a technological watch;
• consulting;
• the creation of a spin-off company based on academic research…

Collaboration between university and industry is encouraged by the public sector, which proposes several financial incentives.

Ways to prepare and manage collaborative research projects, as well as useful addresses, can be found in the “guide to partnership” available online. There, you will find additional information regarding the actors (professional associations, technology transfer offices, incubators, and financing bodies) that can favour university - industry collaboration by:

• helping university and industry to meet;
• proposing workable solutions;
• providing access to their vast knowledge network.