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The Success Factors Powering

Industry-Academia Collaboration
Outline
Industry-Academia Collaboration

• Context
• Research Questions
• Results
• Conclusions

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Context
Industry-Academia Collaboration

• Experiences and lessons learned from


successful collaboration between industry and
academia
 two exploratory studies:
• one conducted in Sweden
• one conducted in Australia

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Research Question
Industry-Academia Collaboration

• RQ1. Which success factors are considered


most important in collaborations between
industry and academia?
• RQ2. What are the differences between
industrial and academic perceptions of these
factors?
• RQ3. What are the differences between the
Swedish and Australian studies concerning
these factors?
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Results
Industry-Academia Collaboration

• RQ1. Which success factors are considered


most important
 Sweden:
It’s clear that the company-side factors
• 1. buy-in and support from company management
will enable collaborative success.
• 2. collaboration champion
However, given on typically
that it’s site the
• 3. researcher’s
researcherattitude
who willand social skills
physically go to
industry, another important factor is the
 Australia:
researcher’s ability to fit into the
• 1. buy-in and support from company management
company’s organizational context.
• 2a. collaboration champion on site
• 2b. short-term results and impact on industry

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Results
Industry-Academia Collaboration

• RQ2. Industry vs. academia


 Sweden:
• Industry > academia show that industry was
The differences
– researcher’s commitment
more concerned to contribute
with a company’sto industry needs (6)
– buy-in and support from
management andcompany management (4)
the researcher’s
– researcher’s
commitment visibleto
presence in industry
contribute and(4) help
• Academia
them, >whereas
industry academia was more
concerned
– champion’s withwithin
network the actual collaborators,
the company (6)
including
– buy-in the main
and support champion
from industry at the(4)
collaborators
company.

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Results
Industry-Academia Collaboration

• RQ2. Industry vs. academia


 Australia:
• Industry
Academia> academia
focuses more on the actual
– champion’s
researcher network
andwithin the companythan
collaborators (4)
– short-term
industry, results and impact
although on industry
industry (5)
prioritizes the
– regular meetings (6) network. Furthermore,
collaborator’s
– trust (8)
industry focuses more on results,
• Academia
meetings, > industry
and trust. Some of these
findings
– buy-in are actually
and support reversed
from industry from (4)
collaborators the
Swedishrelevant
– researcher’s study.expertise (9)
– researcher’s commitment to contribute to industry needs (9)

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Results
Industry-Academia Collaboration

• RQ3. Comparison between countries

• In Sweden, researcher attitude and


social skills ended up ranking third.
This is most likely due to the long-
term collaboration.

• In Australia, the academic


respondents would like to see a
contribution to industry needs.

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Conclusions
Industry-Academia Collaboration

• The most important lessons learned are:


 buy-in and support from company management is
crucial
 there must be a champion at the company, and not
only a person assigned the responsibility
 there are different understandings between
different categories of people (for example,
industrial people, senior researchers, and students)
 social skills are particularly important in a long-
term collaboration
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