In Harvard Business Review, Ken Lutchen, interim BU provost and former ENG dean, shares the secrets of a successful industry-academia partnership
For more than a decade, companies have been moving past merely transactional relationships with academia intended to create and commercialize technological innovations to much deeper, long-term collaborations designed to mutually advance research. In order to help produce the kind of workforce that society urgently needs, some companies and schools are taking a further step: working together to develop curricula and spaces in which students learn, innovate, and work with the cutting-edge technologies they will encounter when they enter the industrial world.
Making these collaborations work for the long term, however, requires that they be carefully designed. From my involvement in efforts at my institution, Boston University, to create such centers over the last three years and my examination of the practices of other schools employing a similar model, I have discerned the following five principles that companies and universities can apply to create successful collaborative relationships.
Read the full article in Harvard Business Review.