Session 2: UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RELATIONS AND INNOVATION

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Session 2UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RELATIONS AND
INNOVATION 

• Rapporteur Susana Borrás
• Roskilde University
• Denmark

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Clustered issues (I)

• Innovation is circular
• Respect different roles let academia be
  academia, and industry be industry.
• The importance of local contacts and community
• Urgent need for more action.
• Why enhance interaction?
• Industry side strategic positioning
• University legitimacy research funding

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Clustered issues (II)

• General principles for relationship
• Universities shall not become shopping centres
  but equal partners for industry
• The work of the last 3 years by OECD, EIRMA and
  EU
• Responsible partnership
• Long-term relationships
• Mutual demands
• Alignment of interests

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Clustered issues (III)

• Practical issues how to do it?
• US and French experience
• Need of professionalism
• Diversity across Europe
• Different types of universities
• Different industrial context
• SMEs Multinational companies

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Final remarks

• Innovation is creativity let the garden grow!
• Carrots work better than sticks
• Different forms of knowledge exploitation
• We shall be exigent with universities but also
  with industry!
• We shall establish responsible partnership
• No clear support for a Baye-Dole act in Europe