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From research to business! How can science-based startups turn ideas into market-ready solutions? Join our webinar to hear from experts supporting researchers in launching and scaling their ventures: 📅 April 8 🕒 13:00-13:45 📍 Online Register here: europa.eu/!mqVK68

Collaboration across #universities and with external stakeholders is essential to solve global challenges but requires overcoming competitive barriers and aligning incentives. weforum.org/stories/2025/0…

Universities need to recognise and support the permeability of third space careers #ResearchCulture wp.me/p4m9em-dej

How attractive is your region? The @OECD_local Directorate of the @OECD has developed an amazing tool to help policymakers understand how the places they govern can better attract talent, investors and visitors. Discover more here: oecd.org/en/about/progr…

#University-#industry collaborations drive #innovation. #Firms gain directly from partnerships and indirectly through proximity to universities—key sources of future collaboration. Read this insightful paper by @UtkuAlpaydin & @fitjar in Growth and Change. doi.org/10.1111/grow.1…

Since universities are often quite distant from firms, this is potentially also important for innovation. These closer relationships can make future collaborations more effective, and thereby produce more tangible benefits in the long run. 🏁

However, other types of collaboration were equally effective in developing proximity. In general, firms reported that collaborations brought them closer to universities in all dimensions: Cognitively, organisationally, institutionally and socially.

There are also different forms of collaboration: Firms and universities collaborate about research, education or more informally. We find that research collaborations are more likely to lead to innovation. Overall, 44% of collaborating firms reported new products as an outcome.

We distinguish between two types of benefits from collaborating with universities: It can lead to direct outputs in the form of e.g. new products or processes. But it also can bring the firm and the university closer, which can improve the success of future collaboration.

How do firms perceive to benefit from collaborating with universities? @UtkuAlpaydin and I examine this in a new paper, which came out today in Growth and Change and is the result of research in @runinproject What did we find? Read on in the 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gr…

@EIT_HEI webinar on how to foster #openinnovation in #highereducation with inspiring presentations and engaging discussions. #EIT_HEI.

📢 Call for applications: #EUInnovationEcosytems-funded Consolid8 Social #Innovation Ecosystem Accelerator! 🇪🇺 Open to EU & #HorizonEurope countries, 🗓️ Deadline: 26/02/24. Apply to develop your business model, access funding & make a lasting impact 👇 bit.ly/48q8AiH

How do 👩‍🎓universities contribute to place-based innovation? 🚀 Join us tomorrow! 🗓 Friday, December 15 ⏱ 10:00am 📡 online 👉europa.eu/!PRkPVD Final stage of the Higher Education for Smart Specialisation project! 👏

💡Leading up to the next #EECOLE roundtable, join us for a series of insightful webinars on place-responsive innovation & #entrepreneurship policies! 🚀 Int'l experts, 45-min sessions each Tuesday at 14:00 (CET) 🗓️Oct 17th - Nov 14th. Register➡️oe.cd/2ndEECOLErt

New #HorizonEU webinar 👇 'Lump Sum Funding: How does it Work? How to Write a Proposal?' Tune in tomorrow, 19 October, from 10:00 - 12:00 to find out how to apply for EU Lump Sum Funding! 👉 europa.eu/!rCQWhd

We need to create a narrative where contributions to social, cultural and environmental development are as important as contributions to economic development, says @ridcinar at the @runinproject conference

Final session of @runinproject conference with @ridcinar delves into #entrepreneurial and #engaged #universities

@sergioman90 presents the factors and #impact of #university #industry #collaboration for #business sector @runinproject #conference in #Oslo

@kwattaowusu from @UniStavanger underlines the importance of #motivations for #academics in #university #industry #collaboration from @runinproject.

How can universities help regions to manage the green transition? Various approaches are possible, but the transformative university model is emerging as a new framework, says @lilimafon at the @runinproject conference