TeachingResearch Synergy and UniversityIndustry cooperation in the knowledge based society

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European University-Industry Network
EUI-Net
Teaching-Research Synergy and University-Industry
cooperation in the knowledge based society
Doru TALABA University Transilvania of Brasov
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SYNERGY

• synergy - Greek sunergia
• sunergos - working together.
• the interaction of two or more agents or forces
  so that their combined effect is greater than the
  sum of their individual effects.
• an enhanced result
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Teaching and research synergy

• What kind of synergetic effect ?
• Enhanced teaching
• Enhanced research
• A third effect ?

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Enhanced teaching (i)

• University teaching of the newest knowledge
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Enhanced teaching (ii)

• Introducing new knowledge into curriculum
• Motivating students
• Research visibility
• Development of student research skills and
  scientific approach
• Shared infrastructure with research

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Enhanced research

• Best recruitment base
• Training best tailored for the research
  profession
• Shared infrastructure
• ?Competitiveness on the research market

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Enhanced teacher or Enhanced researcher ?

• Most often todays approach
• Excellent researcher implicitly excellent
  teacher
• Excellent teacher with lower research tolerated
• The ideal balance
• ? rather rare
• ? very often - researchers neglecting teaching
• ? Sometime - teachers with low research

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The ideal balance

• Needs explicit management strategy
• Mastering allocation of time secret of the
  magic synergy
• Advantages
• accurate and up-to-date information to students
• relevant examples rather than second-hand
  knowledge from textbooks
• The teachers research opened to challenges from
  students.

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A third type of synergy ?

• Synergy third branch
• ? new knowledge ?new business
• The most complex type of synergy
• Three possibilities
• Knowledge transfer to incumbent firms
• Knowledge transfer to an individual starting a
  new firm
• Spin off
• ? Entrepreneurial University

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Entrepreneurial university

• The best known example
• Silicon Valley
• Invented in USA
• Principle of nuclear fission
• Massive concentration of knowledge production
  (research power)
• ? critical mass new business self-emerging
  violently
• Interesting curiosity of the model
• In Stanford budget only 20 is from industrial
  contracts !

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IT comparison mainframe

• Supercomputer powerful tool for the
  mega-companies
• ? Very powerful network of powerful terminals
• alternative for SMEs ? PC network
• ? 80/20 80 performances with 20 cost

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Alternative model U-I Networks
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80/20 ??

• EUI-Net a pilot network in Europe
• Highest interest from the EC
• EUI-Net project ? enters in 3rd year in
  October-06
• Good visibility
• Regular Newsletters
• High interest workshop in Tallinn
• Tuning prepared ? to complete the survey process
• Work on employability (SIG 5)

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New EUI-Net - model

• A bottom-up approach University-industry network
  with a common business knowledge base ?
  knowledge to business tree concept
• Other possible tools ? available at the partners
• (example Enterpriser ?)
• New EUI-Net needs enhanced structure
• 1/3rd Universities
• 2/3rds Enterprises (especially SMEs)
• Principles
• Promising braches ? funding support via
  sub-projects
• An expert team in each European country

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Conclusions

• In Europe Synergy rather neglected
• The big challenge 113 ? Entrepreneurship
• ? The main target of New EUI-Net

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• Thank you !