Speed meeting: A special session to introduce academics and professionals to each other in person and via web cast

✍ Scribed by Deborah E. Swain; Beatrice Pullium; Kris Liberman; Anne Rogers; Deborah Barreau; Julie Hersberger; Leona Faust; Frank Exner; Deanna Hall

• Book ID: 102509364
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 33 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-7870
• DOI: 10.1002/meet.1450440132

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The opportunity for companies with universities to create joint ventures is growing with a recent focus on short‐term projects – not mergers. How can those involved in research and practice meet‐especially graduate student researchers seeking collaborative university, corporate or government partners? Also, according to Wired magazine (April, 2007), there is a new emphasis on transparency and sharing across companies‐beyond competitive intelligence. Such change is leading to increased knowledge sharing across corporate boundaries. Can information professionals share safely ideas, not secrets, and find partners for short‐term development? Information technology companies seem less interested in formal mergers than in cooperative ventures (Apple with Google, for example).

Companies and schools invited to send representatives include:

M (St Paul, Minnesota)

Invitrogen Corporation (Milwaukee, WI)

Pierce Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI)

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Milwaukee, WI)

Covance (Madison, WI)

University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee

University of Wisconsin‐Madison