Cochrane Collaboration's stand versus industry funding

Cochrane Canada to lose primary funding.

Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations: Evaluation of a Funding Program

Nadine Rons (°1969) holds a Master degree in Physics from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1991), where she did research in astronomy for four years until 1995. In 1996 she joined the university’s Research Coordination unit. Her research interests cover a wide range of topics related to research management, including reliability of evaluation results, and indicators for research performance for ...

Managing Innovations Resulting from University-industry Collaborations *

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...

Industry/university collaborations: different perspectives heighten mutual opportunities

Universities and industry organizations have traditionally maintained informal ways of working together, including student internships, faculty exchanges, and industry capstone projects to complete a degree program. A more recent phenomenon is the formal collaboration between a university (or group of universities) and an industry organization (or group of organizations). The purpose is to meet...

Managing Complexity in Industrial Collaborations Within Tool & Die Industry

Joining collaborations and maintaining relationships within these has become a major concern for managers in industrial companies. This change to a large extent arises due to the globalisation of markets and the ongoing specialisation of companies, fostered by the possibilities of information technology and datacommunication. However, such a structural change requires adaptations by companies t...