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A model for small‐scale industry/university collaboration in the UK based on case studies *
Author(s) -
Kamala G. V.,
Swamy K. N. Krishna.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
randd management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.253
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1467-9310
pISSN - 0033-6807
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9310.1985.tb00030.x
Subject(s) - product (mathematics) , process (computing) , scale (ratio) , business , technology transfer , marketing , new product development , industrial organization , engineering management , computer science , process management , knowledge management , engineering , mathematics , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , operating system
This paper outlines some examples of current collaboration between universities and technologically sophisticated small companies in Britain. Based on the examples a descriptive model of university‐industry collaboration in the UK is presented. The model shows that interactions with small industries are often sequels to earlier ones and are essentially a part of the total university‐industry collaboration efforts. Very often the whole process of new efforts. Very often the whole process of new product emergence chain – research ideaprototype‐marketable product‐multiple applications‐general marketable version – is triggered off by initial interactions with small companies and small companies do play a very important role in the process of total technology transfer from university to industry. While flow of research results in a collaboration was on the whole well planned, the initial contact was prone to chance. A two‐stage search by the university, which can reduce the chance element, is suggested.