This paper tries to investigate some of the characteristics of the UniversityIndustry RJVs established in Europe in the context of the European Framework Programmes. UI-RJVs are examined against the non UI-RJVs on their duration, size, technology areas, frequency of participation and country distribution. In addition the objectives, benefits and problems from cooperation with Universities, are ...

the most important goal of each society, is to reach economic development. as the goal and agent of development, man has got an important responsibility, which responsibility is realized by way of education, specially higher education, because the universities are the main factors for progress, production of knowledge and education of specialized human forces and they play a significant role in...

At many universities, senior undergraduate mechanical engineers work in teams on industrysponsored capstone design projects. These projects provide an excellent opportunity for students to synthesize their courses, work with the more realistic deadlines and expectations of industry, and interact with company representatives. It also give industrial partners a chance to become educational partne...

Policymakers and university managers tend to express their willingness to maximise universityindustry interaction inside the region. Implicitly they assume that the incentives and possibilities of all firms and faculty to interact inside the region are homogenous. However, there is no a priori reason to justify that interaction will not take place outside the region. The objective of this resea...

We study university projects and research collaboration projects with industry that are supported by government grants. First, we propose a theoretical model to analyze optimal decisions in these ventures. Second, we test our theoretical results with a unique dataset containing academic publications and collaborative research funds for all the academics at the major engineering departments in t...

Industry leads Business Processing Systems research as it has the strategic imperative and resources to be effective. Academic research is faced with three challenges: firstly, how to do effective research in an area of such broad scope, secondly, how to make research relevant to practice, thirdly how to spend limited resources effectively. This paper defines the research framework for effectiv...

We consider a policy regime allowing academic institutions to grant industry the intellectual property rights (IPRs) over invention resulting from collaborations. If a firm plays an important role in generating an invention, the researcher offers the IPRs to the firm, as an incentive to collaborate. However, he retains certain domains where he can exploit an invention without having to apply fo...