Collaboration with universities allows companies to acquire new knowledge that can improve their organisational performance and competitiveness. Research projects, technology transfer, research consultancies are all different forms of university-industry collaboration. When university and industry collaborate in an innovation project, they create a collaborative unit that can be considered as one innovative enterprise with its own ‘strategic control’ and ‘organizational integration’ as some of the key social concepts.
The Collaborative and Open Innovation All4R&D Platform offers the following services to Universities:
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- Having possibility to be a part of innovation actions
- Have access to the latest strategic policies in different countries
- Creating new partnerships
- Submitting or finding research proposals
- Discovering new funding possibilities
- Conducting joint research projects
- Having access to courses created on needs-analysis of the industry
Effects and Benefits from using the platform are:
Commercialisation of innovation
Applicable and practical solutions relevant for everyday operations
Mobility of professionals
Joint research projects
Creation of new knowledge
New services or products
Possibilities for new funding
Curriculum co-design, co-development, and co-delivery
Increased competitiveness
Access to new technologies and new markets