Collaborative Research and Development Projects: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Dr Tom Harris (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 174
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A lot of time and money is invested in collaborative research and development projects at universities, research institutes and companies. But how should these complex projects be planned and run to create valuable commercial outcomes?

This book is a manual for all individuals and organisations from academia and industry working together on research and development projects. Whether grant funded, company to company or academic to company, this inspiring and highly readable book covers winning grant support, the legal arrangements, working with academics and practitioners, managing project progress and exploiting the project results.

The examples, practical methods and tips in this book will not only help the reader prepare for grant applications, but more importantly help to achieve the best results and returns from every collaborative project.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Grant funding....Pages 5-35
Legal arrangements....Pages 37-48
Getting off to a good start....Pages 49-75
Maintaining momentum....Pages 77-92
Working with academics....Pages 93-101
Working with industrialists....Pages 103-109
Managing problems....Pages 111-125
Exploiting the results....Pages 127-152
Project completion....Pages 153-158
Closing remarks....Pages 159-160
Back Matter....Pages 161-169

✦ Subjects

Management; Engineering, general; Computer Science, general; Biomedicine general; Technology Management