Mr. V.I. Zinchenko (Deputy Governor for Research, Innovation Policy and Education, Tomsk Region) greeted the workshop participants and noted that the workshop was taking place concurrently with a Siberian Innovation Forum that addressed how Siberian regions could achieve a greater links between their science establishments and local industry. He emphasized the need to encourage the greater part...

Basic research, much of which emanates from the outstanding academic laboratories located in the United States and abroad, is the foundation for the innovation that has created the new therapies, materials, and processes that benefit humankind and generate wealth for companies that successfully translate discoveries to commercial success. This is not a linear, one-way process; optimizing the pr...

In this paper, we describe the ideal traits of a new hire in the IC field and the various university/industry relationships that we use to educate our students. We describe briefly a sequence of courses used to give students practical design experience on campus. 1. Characteristics The general traits that faculty members believe are important for students to have are summarized in Table 1. Pane...

Abstract We investigate the determinants of University-Industry interactions in the biopharmaceutical in Italy, over the period 2004-2010. Because of the specificities of biopharmaceutical industry, we choose co-publishing as a proxy of University-Industry relations. By integrating different statistical sources, we construct a novel dataset of co-published articles containing measures of proxim...