New forms of strategic research collaboration between firms and universities in the German research system Online publication date: Mon, 30-Nov-2009
by Knut Koschatzky, Thomas Stahlecker
International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation (IJTTC), Vol. 9, No. 1/2, 2010
Abstract: Due to the shorter life cycles of products and services, industrial research and development (R&D) has been carried out since the 1990s under the criterion of short-term utilisation. Since a few years, however, it can be observed that large enterprises in particular are trying to establish long-term oriented strategic R&D capacities in cooperation with universities. Based on role models like the university-industry research centres in the USA, centres of excellence or competence research centres, this paper focuses on recent developments in Germany in the field of new organisational modes of industrial-university research. It will analyse new public-private research partnerships between industry and universities in Germany and will address the question whether the new mode of collaboration between industry and universities will develop as a new element in the German research system.
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