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5 Building Industry-University Research Partnerships: Corporate Perspective
5 Building Industry-University Research Partnerships: Corporate Perspective
Pages 50-65
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Our company supplies industrial gases and specialty chemicals directly to other industries, as opposed to consumers, and undertakes about $130 million of R&D, between 4 and 7 percent of which is done externally. Why do external technology?
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The total amount of research conducted in the United States increased substantially, and significant discoveries were made in electronics and biomedical research. At the same time, industrial research grew substantially as well.
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Figure 5.3 gives the breakdown of industry funding for academic research ranging from basic to applied to development. It shows that industry does not go to universities to conduct work downstream of research (i.e., development work is not the university' s strength)
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done in July 1997. This was a survey sent to 450 members of the CCR, mostly chairs of chemistry and chemical engineering in the United States, but we also included people overseas in Europe, Japan, and Taiwan.
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WHAT EACH PARTNER BRINGS TO THE TABLE As shown in Box 5.3, the universities obviously provide a lot of research and good work to complement industrial research, and the costs are lower. Industry seeks access to professors as consultants.
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All of these perspectives should help the universities in their teaching program, and, of course, the students gain industrial job opportunities. Also, the funding is approximately 10 percent when compared with federal funding.
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CCR has a partnership with Pennsylvania State University, and we are about to launch one with Georgia Institute of Technology. The Center of Interfacial Engineering at the University of Minnesota is an example of the multicompanysingle university collaboration model.
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This involves Commonwealth of Pennsylvania money, and it goes to two former National Science Foundation (NSF) centers, one at Lehigh University and one at Carnegie Mellon University, and there are over two dozen industrial participants.
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And in a lot of cases there is confidential information involved from the company, and there are typical clauses in any confidentiality statement. The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
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Who pays for the patenting costs and the maintenance fees? That may sound like a trivial matter, but it is not when you consider multiple applications and foreign patents.
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A decision in that case was, "Okay. We aren't going to argue with you on intellectual property.
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CCR now has over 500 Pennsylvania State University graduates on campus. These alumni help.
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Then it's fair to ask for corporate money to help get the project kick-started. Very quickly, once we move beyond feasibility, let's say, to the second year, we'll ask the business units to kick in at least half the money, and hopefully beyond that they take over.
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Christopher Hill, George Mason University: Earlier I mentioned that the tax status of the university could be a problem for that scheme in the United States. You said that you had been able to do it here.
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John Tao: I can't give you any specifics. Joseph Gordon, IBM: You implied that you had a sort of sliding scale for ownership of intellectual property and the amount that you are willing to pay for it.
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