Research collaborations between academia and industry

The rapid and complex research and innovation processes require high-tech companies to optimize their technology, transfer processes. It is clearly not sufficient to solely rely on internal R & D; strategic co-operations with external research centers of excellence are needed in order to compete in the global innovation market. Candidates for such strategic co-operations are universities, research institutions, and technology, focused consulting companies. Key effective integration of external challenge is the competences into the company-internal innovation of the processes. In this paper we Present a survey of state-of-the-art in technology transfer, high-light promising success cases for the future, and derive success criteria for successful technology transfer in a global world. The cooperation between Siemens and Fraunhofer JESE is presented as a concrete example.