Establishing a University—Industry Programme

Abstract

The transfer of experience of university–industry cooperation from those countries where it has become established to countries at earlier stages of the learning curve is a matter of increasing importance. In this article, John Kelly distils the experience of cooperation in northern Europe and, to a lesser extent, in the USA, into a framework for establishing a successful university–industry programme. He identifies the principal elements of cooperation between industry and higher education as cooperative teaching, enterprise development, contract research, and campus companies, and then sets out a suggested organizational and management structure. The article exemplifies one way in which experience may be transferred across countries and economies and provides an overview of lessons learned in the structure and establishment of collaborative programmes.