university–enterprise cooperation

ships between universities, enterprises
and graduates, leading to mutual benefits.
Enterprise, SME or Company benefit from
a highly qualified graduates (or employed
engineers), as industrial fellows, who spend
minimum 6 months to 2 years at University
research and or excellence centres, for professional
development, participating in specific research
projects targeted to industry needs and company
business. They work as part of enterprise,
supported by a team of university experts
– professors, teachers, researchers, who
bring out technical expertise, research, and
innovation to the enterprise or the company.
Industrial fellows serve as ”gatekeeper”
for knowledge and technology transfer from
university to their enterprises and provide
excellent communication channels between
them.
It is planned to develop IFP programme
within WBC-VMnet TEMPUS project, during
the second year of implementation, which
will define:
• Procedures for administration and
management of the programme;
• Conditions for qualifying of enterprise or
the company;
• Funding rules;
• Requirements for graduates;
• Obligations of university research centre
and mentor, who will be responsible for
the career development of graduates;
• Related services for enterprise;
• Intellectual property rights (IPR);
• Quality monitoring rules etc.
IFP programme manual and promotional leaflets will
be published and distributed to public at large.
6.3.8 Other cooperation modalities
Finally, it is very important to emphasis the role
of students in further development of universityenterprises
cooperation. As an illustration,
the students of University of Novi Sad, Serbia
established a consulting company “CORE” with
the aim of providing services to SMEs, and the
Rectorate has also used their services. Within
the “CORE”, close contacts with the Techno
Park Sankt Augustin were developed, and an
agreement between Timisoara incubators, the
Szeged initiative and the University of Novi Sad
Incubation Centre was reached to start a joint
business idea competition.
Furthermore, we would like to suggest also that the
Competition for the Best Technology Innovation
(now organized jointly with the Serbian Ministry
of Science and Technological Development, and
the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia) would obtain
regional importance covering all WB region. This
Contest will have the following aims:
• To promote and foster entrepreneurial culture in
High-Tech area, as well as to boost competitive
potential of WBC region;
• To organize trainings for all participants
in all aspects of business plan writing,
as well as trainings in negotiation and
presentation and communication skills.
The some categories can be: realized
innovations, energy efficiency, innovative
ideas, potentials and innovative
municipalities. The special rewards can be
given for the best student team and best female
team. The Contest’s Final should be presented at
national and regional broadcast services.
6.3.9 Recommendations
From previously suggested and described
mechanisms and possible structures of
new WBC model of university- enterprise
cooperation, we would like to summarize the
following recommendations:
Recommendation 1
Governments of the WBCs should accelerate
a transition of researchers from academic
sphere to enterprises through a greater
emphasis on the mobility aspects of the best
young researchers.
Recommendation 2
Governments of the WBCs should also
introduce tax incentives for projects which
involve knowledge transfer from universities
to enterprises in order to encourage
innovation in SMEs.
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