Building Sustainable Collaborative Partnerships: Industry Insights
Learn from Professor Andrew Ware about the importance of mutually beneficial collaborations with industry, providing real-world input, research funding, and opportunities for academic staff. Discover the benefits for both universities and industries, with case studies on web development, Human-Computer Interaction, and more. Gain strategic insight with the Strategic Insight Programme and foster knowledge transfer partnerships. Enhance professional development and student projects through collaborations with industry.
Building Sustainable Collaborative Partnerships: Industry Insights
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Collaborative Partnership with Industry: Learning from Experience Professor Andrew Ware, Head, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of South Wales.
Common Points • Collaborations need to be mutually beneficial if they are to be sustainable • Collaborations will evolve but should be based on a firm foundation • You can get a lot of benefit from short term collaborations BUT the real benefits take time to accumulate • Collaborations can originate from any number of beginnings but will require commitment to become established
Benefits for University • Gaining ‘real world’ input into academic subject areas that can help shape • curriculum helping to facilitate the development of ‘employment ready’ • graduates. • Funding for research activities. • Providing academic staff with the opportunity to spend time with industry. • Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) • Strategic Insight Program (SIP) Collaboration with industry
Strategic Insight Programme (SIP) • Provided • case studies on web development and many other things • insight to “thinking outside the box”
Knowledge Transfer Partnership • Provided • case studies on Human Computer Interaction, Data Bases, Data Mining • student placements and projects • academic staff exposure to a dynamic business environment
Benefits for industry • Gaining access to people who are often at the ‘cutting edge’ of their discipline. • The opportunity to offer prospective employees (students) an extended interview. • Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities for staff. Collaboration with industry
Need to • Manage expectation. • Have clear objectives BUT be open minded about possibilities. • Think long-term not short-term. Collaboration with industry
E-Skills UK • BSc (Hons) Information Technology Management for Business • BSc (Hons) Software Development for Business Collaboration with industry
Software Alliance Wales • Continuing Professional Development • Student Development Projects • Accreditation of the Software Development Process • Short workshops to whet participants appetite Collaboration with industry