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Review of University-Business collaboration Business Collaboration in Scientific Degrees

Review of University-Business collaboration Business Collaboration in Scientific Degrees. Sir Tim Wilson DL www.wilsonreview.co.uk. Agenda. Six months intensive work 82 pages, 54 recommendations What's the impact?   Are universities being sufficiently progressive?

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Review of University-Business collaboration Business Collaboration in Scientific Degrees

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  1. Review of University-Business collaborationBusiness Collaboration in Scientific Degrees Sir Tim Wilson DL www.wilsonreview.co.uk

  2. Agenda • Six months intensive work • 82 pages, 54 recommendations • What's the impact?   • Are universities being sufficiently progressive? • How has business responded?  • Do we expect too much from government? • What is the international response? • Impact upon the Science sector?

  3. Just as castles provided the source of strength for medieval towns, and factories provided prosperity in the industrial age, universities are the source of strength in the knowledge-based economy of the twenty-first century. Lord Dearing, speech at Newcastle University, September 2002

  4. It is not a coincidence that those communities possessing the best research and graduate facilities – from MIT to Cal Tech – tend to attract the new and growing industries. Speech by President John F Kennedy, undelivered, Dallas November 22nd 1963

  5. “Terman came up with this great idea that did more than anything to cause the tech industry to grow up here” Steve Jobs 2011

  6. We also want our universities to look again at how they work with business across their teaching and research activities, to promote better teaching, employer sponsorship, innovation and enterprise. We have asked Professor Sir Tim Wilson, former vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, to undertake a review into how we make the UK the best place in the world for university–industry collaboration.White Paper: Putting Students at the heart of higher education. paragraph 13, June 2011

  7. Landscape and Domains Supply chains People development Knowledge exchange The critical role of LEPs Facilitating economic growth

  8. UniversitiesCompetitors or Collaborators?

  9. Improving work integrated learning • Expansion of sandwich programmes • Increase in-course internships • Graduate internship support for first engagement • Social enterprise on campus • Internships for PhDs and post docs

  10. Industry sponsored programmes • Employer advice in curriculum design • Certification (eg CISCO, Microsoft) • Sector Skills Council kitemarking • Evaluation? COGENT • Professional body accreditation • Standards of accreditation? Science Council • Corporate upskilling: in-company programmes • Fully sponsored, blended learning • Corporate programme fully sponsored

  11. Research and Innovation • Emergence of strategic relationships • Personal relationships, people exchange, communication • Importance of intermediaries • Informal networking • Structured networking • Emergence of smart networking • Employability amongst PhDs

  12. The importance of locality Networks Strength in HE diversity The critical role of LEPs Inward investment Planning and facilitating economic growth Enterprise zones Science parks

  13. Review of University-Business collaborationBusiness Collaboration in Scientific Degrees Sir Tim Wilson DL www.wilsonreview.co.uk

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