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Needs for new engineering methodologies, curriculum renewal, and new forms of education and training arise, as Cyber-Physical Systems are becoming smarter, more automated, connected and collaborative. In this setting, the use of competence networks, i.e. non-profit collaborations between industry and academia aiming to promote learning and knowledge creation, stands out as a promising approach. Drawing upon experiences from the Innovative Center for Embedded Systems, a KTH-Industry cross-disciplinary and multidomain competence network for students, practicing engineers, managers, and academic faculty, we describe and reflect on challenges and lessons learnt during the 11 years of operation of the ICES network. The findings support a need to emphasize knowledge sharing and exchange encompassing multiple disciplines and cross-domain industrial experience. A competence network acts as a social network that facilitates communication, learning and knowledge creation for both individuals and organizations. Competence networks can thus act as tools for policy makers, creating incentives for life-long learning inside companies. A focused engagement and activities directed towards stakeholders help to establish trust, providing potential for agile and persevering forms of cooperation. QC 20200818

The need for “industry-academia knowledge transfer (IAKT)” and close collaboration in Colombia has been recognised as critical to innovation, while in the United Kingdom (UK) an IAKT model has been successfully deployed in the UK benefitting both stakeholders. As a result in Colombia, an IAKT model does not exist to guide these two key stakeholder groups. The methodology used is based on the analysis of the data collected directly from the aquatic renewable energy (ARE) industry and academia in the Orkney islands (Scotland). In addition, literature available in the public domain was used and analysed. Having this information, a knowledge-education model is proposed for the Colombian context. The IAKT model curriculum was based on ARE course topics and validated in a preliminary phase with UCC undergraduate engineering students from different disciplines. The results were very promising in terms of the skills developed by the students, not only technical but also in communication skills, teamwork, critical thinking and so on.

産学連携商品の開発は各大学が行っているが、実際に商品化することは難しい。島根県立大学出雲キャンパスとして現在まで行ってきた開発商品を紹介し、その問題点を検討した。産学連携商品の開発には、開発、製品化から、事業化までの間の難関・障壁に対しての対応が本学の弱い部分であり、県内企業との連携では特に今後それを補っていく必要がある。

Global operations are accelerating the diffusion of technology and the pace of innovation. The increased demand for ICT and problem-solving skills requires new methods and tools to support continuous learning paradigm. The cornerstones of the OECD policy framework for developing a suitably skilled workforce are a broad availability of good-quality education, a close matching of skills supply to the needs of enterprises and labor markets, support for workers and enterprises to adjust to changes in technology and markets, and preparing for the skills needed in the future. The life-long learning is a challenge among the companies, especially among SMEs. As production systems become more complex and software-intensive, the workers often have to possess heterogeneous skills, so that the companies would be able to keep up with the challenge of building high added value products. In order to concretize the policy frameworks, we have developed a concept for enhanced industry-academia collaboration to support training in different levels of career. In this paper, we introduce a concept for collaboration, associated physical environment and examples of the activities so far. publishedVersion

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Sustainably bridging the industry–academia research gap is an ongoing concern within the wider effort to successfully unlock the full potential of both sectors. In this context, the authors present a research perspective on and an explicit articulation of the manner in which academic research could focus on theorization. They discuss how this focus could be instrumental in developing industry-based academic research projects. ‘Theorization’, in this context, refers to the contribution to existing theories and/or the development of a new theory, aiming to nurture the theorization process, in a way that could substantially contribute to industry’s needs and help to bridge the industry–academia research gap. © The Author(s) 2018.

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are evolving to become more intelligent, autonomous and collaborating, playing an important role in societal infrastructure. The amount of knowledge required in developing and managing future CPS will be unprecedented, leading to stronger needs for collaboration, competence provisioning, continuous learning and renewal of education. This is where “competence” (or learning) “networks” involving academia and industry play an important role. We elaborate and discuss needs, lessons learnt and challenges for such competence networks in the context of CPS. We draw upon our experiences gained from ICES - the KTH-industry cross-disciplinary and multi-domain competence network which in 2019 has been operational for 11 years, growing from 6 to more than 30 participating organizations. The ICES network focuses on activities to support students, industrial engineers and managers, and academic faculty, acting as a network, catalyst and competence provider directed towards these stakeholders. We elaborate challenges faced during the operation of ICES including the lack of prioritization of competence networks and education, the paradox with strong needs for competence networks but perceived lack of time, the challenges of reaching out to stakeholders, and fragmented efforts addressing competence provisioning. We finally discuss ways forward. In conclusion, we believe that the ICES type of network could be relevant in many other areas characterized by complex systems. QC 20200611

Impact sourcing (ImS) initiatives in higher education play important roles in the employability of graduates, especially in the global business services (GBS) industry. This study explores the sustainability of ImS in higher education institutions (HEIs) for graduates&rsquo, employability. This study used qualitative research methodology, collecting data from related documents, observations, interviews, and focus groups with selected students, lecturers, and industry practitioners. The data were analyzed using Sen&rsquo, s capability framework, with the primary objective of analyzing individual capabilities&mdash, specifically, conversions, resources, and capabilities. The findings show that ImS could improve future graduates&rsquo, technical and soft skills, thereby enhancing their employability in the GBS industry. Some constraints that need to be overcome include the infrastructure, rewards, and incentives, as well as system reliability. This study contributes to the development of the capability framework for ImS initiatives in relation to the employability of graduates and other marginalized communities. The conversions, resources, and capabilities should be considered when assessing the impact of ImS. In addition, this study contributes to the talent pool agenda with a specific focus on ImS and graduates&rsquo, employability.

Fieldwork on the Wageningen University and affiliated agricultural industries was conducted in December 2014as a case study for the establishment of the Faculty of Horticultureʼs new education program in 2016. This revealedthat the Netherlands became a global leader in the field of greenhouse horticulture through industry-governmentacademiacoordination for the formulation of an enormous agricultural area and center for food research anddevelopment. A system enabling industry participation in university education through collaborative projects andinternships was also found. Analysis of the curriculum found consistency throughout the bachelor and masters,course selection as a program of courses to enable swift response to new social situations, and the use of a sixsemestersystem to increase the effectiveness of education and the efficiency with which courses are administered.Further deliberation on the content of the new curriculum and the format of the quarter system taking these insightsinto consideration will be necessary to train horticultural professionals capable of succeeding both within Japanand abroad., 園芸学部が2016年度から発足させる新教育プログラムのためのケーススタディとして,ワーヘニンゲン大学と関連企業に対する現地調査を2014年12月に行った.その結果,産官学が連携して巨大な農業地帯や食品研究開発拠点を形成することで,オランダが施設園芸の分野で世界のリーダーとなり得たことや,共同プロジェクトやインターンシップによって企業が大学教育に参加できる仕組みがあることが明らかとなった.また,カリキュラムを分析した結果,学士・修士一貫に準じた教育課程を有していることや,新しい社会情勢に迅速に対応するためにプログラム単位で授業を履修させたり,教育効果や授業の実施効率制を向上させるために6学期制を導入していることがわかった.国内外で活躍できる園芸栗原・大川・丸尾:オランダ農業高等教育における産学連携と学士・修士一貫教育システムの現状分析 9プロフェッショナルを育成するためには,これらの知見を参考に,新しいカリキュラムの内容やクォーター制のあり方について検討を重ねることが重要であろう.

To determine how industry and academia approach software testing, researchers compared the titles of presentations from selected conferences in each of the two communities. The results shed light on the root cause of low industry-academia collaboration and led to suggestions on how to improve this situation.

Background: Software reference architectures are becoming widely adopted by organizations that need to support the design and maintenance of software applications of a shared domain. For organizations that plan to adopt this architecture-centric approach, it becomes fundamental to understand how software reference architectures are engineered, and to know their return on investment. Unfortunately, there is a lack of evidence-based support to help organizations with these challenges. Goal: The main goal of this PhD thesis is to support organizations making informed decisions about software reference architecture acquisition, design, and use based on empirical evidence. Methods: To accomplish this goal, we have conducted an action research approach in an industry-academia collaboration between everis (a multinational IT consulting firm based in Spain) and our Research Group of Software and Service Engineering (GESSI). Results: The results from our industry-academia collaboration led to uncover novel evidence on the use of software reference architectures in practice. The procedures and evidence obtained have been packaged to design guidelines that could be used in similar contexts as the one of everis. Conclusions: This PhD thesis supports organizations to acquire and engineer software reference architectures by providing evidence-based support. Such evidence-based support consists of the results of the empirical studies conducted in this PhD thesis, and the presented guidelines for gathering new corporate evidence. Context: Les arquitectures del software de referència estan sent àmpliament adoptades per les organitzacions que necessiten dissenyar i mantenir aplicacions software d’un domini compartit. Per les organitzacions que tenen previst adoptar aquest enfocament centrat en l’arquitectura, esdevé fonamental entendre com es dissenyen les arquitectures del software de referència, i conèixer el seu retorn d’inversió. Desafortunadament, hi ha una manca de recolzament basat en l’evidència per ajudar aquestes organitzacions a afrontar aquests reptes. Objectiu: L’objectiu principal d’aquesta tesi doctoral és recolzar les organitzacions a prendre decisions informades i basades en l’evidència empírica sobre l’adquisició, disseny i ús d’arquitectures del software de referència. Mètodes: Per aconseguir aquest objectiu, s’ha portat a terme un enfocament d’investigació-acció en una col·laboració empresa-universitat entre “everis” (una empresa multinacional de consultoria tecnològica amb seu a Espanya) i el nostre Grup d’investigació en Enginyeria del Software i Serveis (GESSI). Resultats: Fruït de la nostra col·laboració empresa-universitat, s’han descobert noves evidències sobre l’ús d’arquitectures del software de referència a la pràctica. Els procediments i les evidències obtingudes han estat empaquetades per dissenyar directrius que podrien ser utilitzades en contextos similars com el d’everis. Conclusions: Aquesta tesi doctoral és una contribució per les organitzacions que adopten i dissenyen arquitectures del software de referència, proporcionant recolzament basat en l’evidència empírica. Aquest recolzament es constitueix dels resultats dels estudis empírics realitzats en aquesta tesi doctoral, i les directrius que es presenten per la recol·lecció de noves evidències corporatives.

Background: Software reference architectures are becoming widely adopted by organizations that need to support the design and maintenance of software applications of a shared domain. For organizations that plan to adopt this architecture-centric approach, it becomes fundamental to understand how software reference architectures are engineered, and to know their return on investment. Unfortunately, there is a lack of evidence-based support to help organizations with these challenges. Goal: The main goal of this PhD thesis is to support organizations making informed decisions about software reference architecture acquisition, design, and use based on empirical evidence. Methods: To accomplish this goal, we have conducted an action research approach in an industry-academia collaboration between everis (a multinational IT consulting firm based in Spain) and our Research Group of Software and Service Engineering (GESSI). Results: The results from our industry-academia collaboration led to uncover novel evidence on the use of software reference architectures in practice. The procedures and evidence obtained have been packaged to design guidelines that could be used in similar contexts as the one of everis. Conclusions: This PhD thesis supports organizations to acquire and engineer software reference architectures by providing evidence-based support. Such evidence-based support consists of the results of the empirical studies conducted in this PhD thesis, and the presented guidelines for gathering new corporate evidence., Context: Les arquitectures del software de referència estan sent àmpliament adoptades per les organitzacions que necessiten dissenyar i mantenir aplicacions software d’un domini compartit. Per les organitzacions que tenen previst adoptar aquest enfocament centrat en l’arquitectura, esdevé fonamental entendre com es dissenyen les arquitectures del software de referència, i conèixer el seu retorn d’inversió. Desafortunadament, hi ha una manca de recolzament basat en l’evidència per ajudar aquestes organitzacions a afrontar aquests reptes. Objectiu: L’objectiu principal d’aquesta tesi doctoral és recolzar les organitzacions a prendre decisions informades i basades en l’evidència empírica sobre l’adquisició, disseny i ús d’arquitectures del software de referència. Mètodes: Per aconseguir aquest objectiu, s’ha portat a terme un enfocament d’investigació-acció en una col·laboració empresa-universitat entre “everis” (una empresa multinacional de consultoria tecnològica amb seu a Espanya) i el nostre Grup d’investigació en Enginyeria del Software i Serveis (GESSI). Resultats: Fruït de la nostra col·laboració empresa-universitat, s’han descobert noves evidències sobre l’ús d’arquitectures del software de referència a la pràctica. Els procediments i les evidències obtingudes han estat empaquetades per dissenyar directrius que podrien ser utilitzades en contextos similars com el d’everis. Conclusions: Aquesta tesi doctoral és una contribució per les organitzacions que adopten i dissenyen arquitectures del software de referència, proporcionant recolzament basat en l’evidència empírica. Aquest recolzament es constitueix dels resultats dels estudis empírics realitzats en aquesta tesi doctoral, i les directrius que es presenten per la recol·lecció de noves evidències corporatives.

This architecture is a building constructed in commemoration of the Kanai school 60th anniversary. This plan included the participation of positive students, and design house for the students, by the students, of the students was completed. One institution was completed, but also was able to have many experiences, because a company performed collaboration with students and a teacher, it was completed. I think to very valuable things and record these things including a building process.

This architecture is a building constructed in commemoration of the Kanai school 60th anniversary. This plan included the participation of positive students, and design house for the students, by the students, of the students was completed. One institution was completed, but also was able to have many experiences, because a company performed collaboration with students and a teacher, it was completed. I think to very valuable things and record these things including a building process.

New technologies are needed to put on the market ever accelerated schedule in order to design and fabricate devices that fulfill consumers' expectations. An industry-academy collaborative working mode is very efficient way to accelerate and diversify progression of novel technological solutions, educate new multidisciplinary professionals, and to act the function of new business incubation. This type of long-term research activity strengthens the position of research groups from small countries in an international competition.

Part 3: The Practitioner’s View on “Innovative Production Management Towards Sustainable Growth”; International audience; The Japanese manufacturing industry has sought to increase its international competitiveness by developing higher value-added products. Simultaneously, R&D that exploits external resources – as typified by open innovation – is also taking hold.Although collaborative product development research between public research institutions and private-sector companies is widely conducted, there are many instances when the results are not achieved due to differing perceptions of the partnership. Under such conditions, especially when the research is publically funded, methods for better managing the projects are being sought at the policy level. Using examples of publically funded industry-academia collaborative projects, this paper considers efficient management methods for projects aimed at such development.The research focuses on changes to the collaborative research system used in partnership projects and shows that it is more effective to conduct collaborative research that incorporates other companies as needed, without fixating on the original make-up of the collaborative system at the start.

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This paper gives an overview of an advanced educational program for software design engineering that is currently conducted at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University under the grant “ Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools” from MEXT. Software design engineering is highly expected to play a critical role in winning success in designing the next-generation software systems. The aim of the program is to bring up young researchers with the latest design methodologies and practical design experience, who can pioneer the frontier of software design engineering. The program is conducted with the collaboration of industries that have rich practical experience and are facing the engineering problems to be solved in developing the next-generation software.

This paper highlights the collaboration between industry and academia in research. It describes more than two decades of intensive development and research of new hardware and software platforms to support innovative, high-performance sensor systems with extremely high demands on embedded signal processing capability. The joint research can be seen as the run before a necessary jump to a new kind of computational platform based on parallelism. The collaboration has had several phases, starting with a focus on hardware, then on efficiency, later on software development, and finally on taking the jump and understanding the expected future. In the first part of the paper, these phases and their respective challenges and results are described. Then, in the second part, we reflect upon the motivation for collaboration between company and university, the roles of the partners, the experiences gained and the long-term effects on both sides. Copyright © 2014 ACM.

Industry–academia projects exist in complex contexts of var- ious stakeholders, time perspectives, and goals. In order to analyze projects and communicate about them, we have de- fined an “architectural” model for industry–academia collab- oration, inspired by Kruchten’s software architecture model. The model has four views of i) time, ii) space, iii) activ- ity and iv) domain, corresponding to the questions: when, where, how and what. The +1 view is the scenario, binding the other four together. We illustrate the model by applying it to the Industrial Excellence Center EASE and the Sigrun Software Innovation and Engineering Institute. The model helps analyzing industry–academia collaboration projects, to find gaps and reduce redundant work.

More and more, software engineering researchers are motivated to solve real problems that bring value to industry. An example is the industry-academia collaboration described in this paper among everis, an IT consulting firm, and the GESSI research group at UPC. The goal of this paper is twofold: to evaluate the success of the collaboration, and to report the experience with conducting empirical studies in the industry and lessons learnt. We evaluated our collaboration with an existing model for technology transfer, and performed a focus group discussion to identify challenges we have faced. After initialization and alignment of the collaboration, a high maturity level has been achieved: we have obtained the first results in form of proposed solutions, scientific publications, and pilots run in real projects. In spite of this positive progress, further initiatives need to be undertaken in the last phases of the collaboration to achieve high degrees of maturity in deployment impact, industry benefit and innovativeness. Evaluating the collaboration has been positive, since we identified the next steps to be taken to achieve a high degree of technology transfer and innovation dissemination. We think it is a needed step in industry-academia collaborations in order to improve their success.

In industry–academia collaboration projects, there are many issues related to different time horizons in industry and academia. If not adressed upfront, they may hinder collaboration in such projects. We analyze our experiences from a 10 year industry–academia collaboration program, the EASE Industrial Excellence Center in Sweden, and identify issues and feasible practices to overcome the hurdles of different time horizons. Specifically, we identify issues related to contracts, goals, results, organization (in)stability, and work practices. We identify several areas where the time horizon is different, and conclude that mutual awareness of these dif- ferences and management commitment to the collaboration are the key means to overcome the differences. The launch of a mediating institute may also be part of the solution.

Universities and research institutes are increasingly expected to contribute to society by creating innovation from the returns of their research results and the establishment of new technologies. Toward that goal, Keio University in Japan held an international symposium titled "Fulfilling the Promise of Technology Transfer: Fostering Innovation for the Benefit of Society". From that symposium the following contents are included in the present volume: 1) A showcase of ideas and case studies to promote future creation of innovation by universities and research institutes worldwide, including information on the R&D value chain, licensing, income generation, start-ups and mechanisms to encourage entrepreneurship, and the changing role of universities in fostering innovation. 2) Introduction of active research projects that aim to productize successful research results on an international level. For example, the book includes results of research on stem cell technologies and regenerative medicine as well as the realization and application of polymer photonics and the development of the core technology of polymer photonics. 3) Case studies from the U.K. in developing industry-academia collaboration with various business partners ranging from start-ups and spinout companies to large enterprises. 4) Reports of the achievements of the technological transfer activities at Keio University supported by the 5-year public fund, with suggestions for future prospects.

The paper presents the results of studies carried out recently among Bulgarian stakeholders to investigate the career and mobility of researchers, as well as problems in industry-academia collaboration. The methodological approach is inspired by the FP7 E*CARE and SISTER projects of Sofia University. The paper presents some general issues for research and innovation landscape in Bulgaria, and outlines the case of Technical University of Sofia.

It can be said that the collaboration between industries and universities is a useful tool to make the university as the source of "Knowledge" activate the education and research and develop obtaining the trust of the society. In addition, it is one form for the collaboration between business and academia to make the best use of the education and the fruition of one's studies as the obligation of the university for "Social contribution", and it is important for the university to clarify their meaning of existence, and to obtain the understanding and support of the people through this collaboration activities. At the university, the coordinator being arranged by the organization is playing a center role of the support service for it. They contribute for the matting activities between research seeds of the university and needs of the industry. Though an actual matching activity shows infinite variety, success of matting between the research seeds of the university and needs of the industry are greatly depending on coordinator's judge ability and human network. In this research, first it shows and analyzes the coordinator's current situation regarding their matting activities, and then it newly proposes the macro analysis technique using text mining which is using researcher's thesis and the patent data of the enterprise to give a solution to coordinator for improving their difficult situation., The original publication is available at JAIST Press http://www.jaist.ac.jp/library/jaist-press/index.html, Proceedings of KSS'2007 : The Eighth International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences : November 5-7, 2007, [Ishikawa High-Tech Conference Center, Nomi, Ishikawa, JAPAN], Organized by: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology