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Title

Case Studies and Best Practices in Academic-Industry Collaboration

Guide

Guide for Collaboration

Draft

https://github.com/f-rower/the-turing-way/tree/Case-Studies-and-Best-Practices-in-Academic-Industry-Collaboration/book/website/collaboration/academic-industry

Summary of proposed chapter

In its present form, the chapter on Academic-Industry Collaborations could benefit from the addition of a further sub-chapter, tentatively titled “Case Studies and Best Practices in Academic-Industry Collaboration” focused on best-practices, lessons learnt, and case studies in successfully shaping ad navigating Academia-Industry collaboration for Open Science. The vision for this sub-chapter is to become a continuously updated database of academic-industry collaboration case studies that future researchers can reference.

A balance must be struck between producing research that is directly useful for the sponsoring organisation and producing research that is open, shareable, and beneficial to the larger community. This tension is tricky to navigate and shape, both for new and seasoned researchers. Therefore, researchers championing Open Science would benefit from lessons learnt and case studies from other researchers who successfully and/or unsuccessfully navigated this aspect of Academic-Industry collaborations.

Resources

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Who can help?

• Anyone with relevant experience or interest in establishing Open Science principles in the context of Academic-Industry collaboration.

Updates

• [x] Write chapter outline
• [x] Add material to the chapter
• [x] Remove TTW case study writing resources from online resources section, and say that it is work in progress and will be updated soon
• [x] Identify user personas for this subchapter @aranas
• [x] Add proposed user personas to subchapter intro
• [x] Fix reference links to other sections of TTW
• [x] Add Author attribution column in case study table
• [x] Add files to ToC
• [x] fix broken links in subchapter
• [ ] A good first issue could be adding tags to case study descriptions in the case study library
• [ ] fix image links in the practitioners' hub case study
• [ ] Add best practices Scriberia image to subchapter intro
• [ ] Create a best practices and challenges library document to keep all in one place
• [ ] Case Study Writing Hackathon @aranas @Karvovskaya
  • Publication afterwards too???
• [ ] Add Turing-Accenture collaboration case study once it's ready in October @mishkanemes
• [ ] Add case study writing framework once it's ready @AlexandraAAJ
• [ ] New issue: Checklist for industry-academic collaboration according to user persona @Karvovskaya
• [ ] New issue: Specify user personas @Karvovskaya

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I have so far collected this list of resources to inform this subchapter. Are there any other resources, particularly within TTW, which might be worth considering?

Resources

Best Practices

TTW Resources

Title and Link	Relevance
Project Design	This guide has lots of useful information that would be helpful to consider when starting a collaboration
Guide to Planning a Community	The Guide to Planning a Community are helpful context to consider when creating and maintaining a collaboration

Industry Resources

Title and Link	Relevance
Data Science: From Academia to Industry	Suggested by @acocac
Academia-Industry Collaboration Best Practices Guide	Suggested by @vhellon

Academic Resources

Title and link	Journal/Parent Resource	Year
Academic–industry collaborations and knowledge co-production in the social sciences	Journal of Sociology	2013
When Collaboration Bridges Institutions: The Impact of University–Industry Collaboration on Academic Productivity	Organization Science	2018
Academic Collaborations with Industry: Lessons for the Future	Journal of Investigative Medicine	2020
Research Collaborations between Academia and Industry	Future of Software Engineering Conference	2007
The double-edged sword of industry collaboration: Evidence from engineering academics in the UK	Research Policy	2015
Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of the literature on university–industry collaborations	The Journal of Technology Transfer	2017
A Spatial Temporal Exploration of Factors Motivating Academia-Industry Collaboration	Journal of the Knowledge Economy	2021
Challenges and best practices in industry-academia collaborations in software engineering: A systematic literature review	Information and Software Technology	2016
University‐industry collaboration: Grafting the entrepreneurial paradigm onto academic structures	European Journal of Innovation Management	2007

Case Study Writing

TTW Resources

Title and link	Relevance
The Turing Way Practitioners Hub / Case Study Writing Framework	This resource could be used as the backbone for case study reporting of academia-industry collaboration. However, it won't be completed until January 2024
TTW Case Study Template	This resource could be used as the backbone for case study reporting of academic-industry collaboration

[acocac]

Please consider a recent report by Catapult Energy Systems Data Science: From Academia to Industry. Indeed, Energy Systems is one of the experts in residence of the Practitioners Hub.

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Updated the resource list according to @acocac suggestion

[aranas]

Regarding the case studies we publish under this sub-chapter. We can keep in mind the following audiences:

• Academic Organisations/Departments Want to create a continuous pathway for academics to interacting with industry partner. Wants to learn how to generate opportunities for engagement on both sides, scale collaborations and create sustainability around the collaboration partner. Interested in:

  • Strategies for establishing and growing collaborative networks
  • Designing programs that bridge organizational boundaries.

  Target Case study:

  • Turing-Roche case study

• Newcomers to Industry Collaboration: Academics wanting to start collaborating with industry. Interested in:

  • Identify potential industry partners
  • Initial outreach
  • Common terms and expectations
  • Understanding industry goals & ways of working

• Engagement-ready Academics: Has a potential collaboration partner identified and understand their goals & ways of working but wants to make sure the collaboration will be impactful and wants to avoid common pitfalls. Interested in:

  • Potential challenges or strategies for conflict resolution
  • Management of ongoing collaborations
  • Alignment with industry long-term goals
  • Develop trust with collaboration partner
  • Administrative support structures

[f-rower]

Regarding the case studies we publish under this sub-chapter. We can keep in mind the following audiences:

• Academic Organisations/Departments Want to create a continuous pathway for academics to interacting with industry partner. Wants to learn how to generate opportunities for engagement on both sides, scale collaborations and create sustainability around the collaboration partner. Interested in:

  • Strategies for establishing and growing collaborative networks
  • Designing programs that bridge organizational boundaries.

  Target Case study:

  • Turing-Roche case study

• Newcomers to Industry Collaboration: Academics wanting to start collaborating with industry. Interested in:

  • Identify potential industry partners
  • Initial outreach
  • Common terms and expectations
  • Understanding industry goals & ways of working

• Engagement-ready Academics: Has a potential collaboration partner identified and understand their goals & ways of working but wants to make sure the collaboration will be impactful and wants to avoid common pitfalls. Interested in:

  • Potential challenges or strategies for conflict resolution
  • Management of ongoing collaborations
  • Alignment with industry long-term goals
  • Develop trust with collaboration partner
  • Administrative support structures

These have now been incorporated into the introduction of the subchapter

[aranas]

This comment is inspired by a book-dash conversation with @RichardJActon

Suggested sub-headings for chapter around 'types' of collaboration, maybe based on the targeted outcome, eg:

• Internships and Early Career Opportunities in Industry (focus on networking & skill building, industry as training ground)
• Industry-Driven Innovation in Research Labs (eg lab equipment/software, focus on improved productivity, industry as provider)
• Collaborative Tool and Method Development (focus on knowledge/solution generation, industry as research partner)
• Researchers as consultants to industry (eg BridgeAI case study) suggested by @AlexandraAAJ

For each type, accompanying case studies (#3769) should be guided by prompts that are specific to the type of collab, eg for Industry-Driven Innovation in Research Labs

• In your experience, how much of the equipment or software specifications provided by industry partners were available as open-access resources? During the collaboration setup or later stages (e.g., acquisition, installation or maintenance), how did access to these specifications impact your work?
• Can you describe specific practices or strategies you’ve used to promote transparency when adopting industry-driven tools or products in your lab? . E.g. , when setting up the collaboration, were there specific agreements that helped ensure access to the necessary equipment/software specs? How did these arrangements evolve, if at all, throughout the collaboration, and what would you suggest to others based on these experiences?
• When working with industry-provided tools that may eventually become obsolete, what discussions or agreements did you pursue with the company regarding maintenance, support, or open-sourcing? Were there any particular practices that supported long-term continuity for your research?
• Reflecting on your interactions with industry partners, what conversations or agreements helped set shared expectations for transparency and support?

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I really like the suggestion of organising the chapter into subheadings according to the type of collaboration. I would say, however, maybe it's better to wait until we have collected a few more case studies and, as we grow the number of case studies for each kind of collaboration, start adding these subheadings?

The questions on navigating open practices are great, I'll add them to the issue on building the case study template (https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/issues/3912)

[RichardJActon]

To add to @aranas points arising from our conversation. Another scenario I had in mind is when a researcher is seeking to commercialize something that they have developed into a product either by spinning out a company of licensing some IP to an existing entity. What considerations should they and professionals working in knowledge exchange / commercialization roles at research institutions have in mind to do so in a way that ensures ongoing openness conducive to the ethical use of any resulting products in open science.

What terms should be attached to licenses to require certain things be open, should they include sunset clauses which ensure that if commercial development is stopped resulting IP is unencumbered.

Similarly when starting a spin out giving consideration to using a business model compatible with ongoing open practices.