Friday, April 3, 2015

Collaborate, innovate, or be left behind

The Australian Technology Network (ATN) have released a new report titled: Innovate and Prosper – Ensuring Australia’s Future Competitiveness through University-Industry Collaboration’.

It is an interesting read, with recommendations on how to better incentivize collaboration between industry and universities. Recommendations include, amongst a range of others, better transfer of university researchers and graduates into industry and increasing funding for universities based on industry engagement. Developing an engagement measure is also touched on and it is good to note that the ATN have input from industry in this process through their Industry Advisory Board. If the university sector is going to develop a robust metric for engagement or research impact then it should be done with industry input. More information can be found here:

https://www.atn.edu.au/News-room/Latest-News/Collaborate-innvoate-or-be-left-behind/

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