Government-university-industry partnerships in technology development: a case study

University-industry partnerships are common in the Sciences, but less so in the Humanities. As a result, there is little understanding of how they work in the Humanities. Using the Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Networked Open Social Scholarship (INKE:NOSS) initiative as a case study, this paper contributes to this discussion by examining the nature of the university-industry partnership with libraries and academic-adjacent organizations, and associated benefits, challenges, measures of success, and outcomes. Interviews were conducted with the collaboration’s industry partners. After several years of collaboration on the development of a grant application, industry partners have found the experience of working with academics to be a positive one overall. Industry partners are contributing primarily in-kind resources in the form of staff time, travel to meetings, and reading and commenting on documents. They have also been able to realize benefits while negotiating the challenges. Using qualitative standards, measures of success and desired outcomes are being articulated. This work developing the partnership should stand the larger INKE:NOSS team in good stead if they are successful with securing grant funding.

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Analyzing the Role of University Industry-Collaboration to Regional Development: The Case Study of Bursa Region in Turkey

European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research ◽

10.26417/ejser.v1i1.p279-284 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 279 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cagatan Taskın ◽

Cem Okan Tuncel

Keyword(s):

Regional Development ◽

Manufacturing Industry ◽

Technology Development ◽

Marmara Region ◽

Social Challenges ◽

Policy Alternatives ◽

Industry Collaboration ◽

University Industry

This study examines the contributions of university-industry collaboration to regional development. Regional development that becomes possible through allocation of the regional resources to technology development efforts provides competitiveness. in addition, university-industry collaboration is a vital centre of competence to help tackle social challenges and drive regional development. When companies and universities work in tandem to push the frontiers of knowledge, they become a powerful engine for innovation and economic growth. Due to having limited R-D capability and human capital university-industry collaboration is the main source of the innovative skills trigger the regional development and provides competitive power in the developing countries. This study aims to address the challenge of bridging the industry-university in regional development process and analyzing university-industry connection problems from local firms' perspectives in Bursa region, Turkey. University-industry collaboration is the main important driving force for Bursa economy, a bridge between Istanbul and South Marmara region and an old city that has strong industrial infrastructure in Turkey. It has a great potential to become a competitive region because of the fact that it has many innovative firms clustered under different sectors. Some technological spillovers, provided by breakthroughs in Bursa economy, will enable to the creation of an innovative region from South Marmara. To reach the success in this process, an interfaced institution which construct and coordinate university-industry collaboration have to be developed. in this study, university-industry collaboration is evaluated from the viewpoint of firms. A structured questionnaire was formed through a literature survey. The main population of this research consists of manufacturing industry in Bursa region, Turkey. The data was collected from selected manufacturing firms in order to evaluate the challenges and the expectations of these firms. Based on the obtained results, policy alternatives that aim to develop university-industry collaboration more effectively in the region were also discussed.

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Building and Supporting Humanities-Based University–industry Partnerships: View from the Academics

10.21810/pop.2019.009 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Lynne Siemens

Keyword(s):

Policy Intervention ◽

For Profit ◽

Not For Profit ◽

Industry Collaboration ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Industry Partnerships ◽

The Many ◽

The University ◽

University Industry

University–industry partnerships are rare on the humanities side of campus in contrast to the sciences. As a result, little is known about these partnerships, which tend to be with libraries and other not-for-profit organizations. Using the Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Network Open Social Scholarship (INKE:NOSS) as a case study, this research examines a humanities-based university–industry partnership from the academics’ perspective. It explores the nature of the collaboration, associated benefits and challenges, and measures of success and desired outcomes. Overall, building upon several years of working with the partners, the interviewed researchers found that the benefits of collaborating outweighed the challenges. The benefits included the potential to move research towards production-orientated results. Among the many challenges, there was some hesitation about the ability to achieve publications and presentations needed for tenure and promotion. The academics contributed students, and in-kind and cash resources from their own research funds and those of the university to the partnership. At this point, the measures of success and desirable outcomes have not been quantified and instead focus on policy intervention and movement towards open social scholarship. These understandings about the nature of such a university–industry collaboration should provide a good foundation if partnership is funded.

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A Proof for the Possibility of Ce-Oxide from CMP Residuals in Si-Wafers by Analytical TEM

ISTFA 2012: Conference Proceedings from the 38th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis ◽

10.31399/asm.cp.istfa2012p0347 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Wayne Zhao ◽

Liem Do Thanh ◽

Michael Gribelyuk ◽

Mary-Ann Zaitz ◽

Wing Lai

Keyword(s):

Technology Development ◽

Early Stage ◽

Chemical Mechanical Planarization ◽

Particle Cluster ◽

Limited Region ◽

Physical Evidence ◽

Analytical Tem ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

Oxide Particles

Abstract Inclusion of cerium (Ce) oxide particles as an abrasive into chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries has become popular for wafer fabs below the 45nm technology node due to better polishing quality and improved CMP selectivity. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has difficulties finding and identifying Ce-oxide residuals due to the limited region of analysis unless dedicated efforts to search for them are employed. This article presents a case study that proved the concept in which physical evidence of Ce-rich particles was directly identified by analytical TEM during a CMP tool qualification in the early stage of 20nm node technology development. This justifies the need to setup in-fab monitoring for trace amounts of CMP residuals in Si-based wafer foundries. The fact that Cr resided right above the Ce-O particle cluster, further proved that the Ce-O particles were from the wafer and not introduced during the sample preparation.

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Challenges and Benefits of Product-Like SRAM in Technology Development

ISTFA 2011: Conference Proceedings from the 37th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis ◽

10.31399/asm.cp.istfa2011p0362 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Felix Beaudoin ◽

Stephen Lucarini ◽

Fred Towler ◽

Stephen Wu ◽

Zhigang Song ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Technology Development ◽

Random Access ◽

Random Access Memory ◽

Static Random Access Memory ◽

Development Phase ◽

High Complexity ◽

Access Memory ◽

Integration Schemes ◽

Front End

Abstract For SRAMs with high logic complexity, hard defects, design debug, and soft defects have to be tackled all at once early on in the technology development while innovative integration schemes in front-end of the line are being validated. This paper presents a case study of a high-complexity static random access memory (SRAM) used during a 32nm technology development phase. The case study addresses several novel and unrelated fail mechanisms on a product-like SRAM. Corrective actions were put in place for several process levels in the back-end of the line, the middle of the line, and the front-end of the line. These process changes were successfully verified by demonstrating a significant reduction of the Vmax and Vmin nest array block fallout, thus allowing the broader development team to continue improving random defectivity.

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Technology Content Assessment for Technology Development in Small Medium Enterprise (SME) of Wood Furniture: A Case Study

2021 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications (ICIEA) ◽

10.1109/iciea52957.2021.9436690 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Suci Miranda ◽

Elisa Kusrini

Keyword(s):

Technology Development ◽

Content Assessment ◽

Medium Enterprise ◽

Wood Furniture

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Trusting the Corona-Warn-App? Contemplations on trust and trustworthiness at the intersection of technology, politics and public debate

European Journal of Communication ◽

10.1177/02673231211028377 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026732312110283

Author(s):

Judith Simon ◽

Gernot Rieder

Keyword(s):

Technology Development ◽

Public Debate ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Initial Development ◽

The Public ◽

Public Debates ◽

Moral Duties ◽

Moral Demands

Ever since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, questions of whom or what to trust have become paramount. This article examines the public debates surrounding the initial development of the German Corona-Warn-App in 2020 as a case study to analyse such questions at the intersection of trust and trustworthiness in technology development, design and oversight. Providing some insights into the nature and dynamics of trust and trustworthiness, we argue that (a) trust is only desirable and justified if placed well, that is, if directed at those being trustworthy; that (b) trust and trustworthiness come in degrees and have both epistemic and moral components; and that (c) such a normatively demanding understanding of trust excludes technologies as proper objects of trust and requires that trust is directed at socio-technical assemblages consisting of both humans and artefacts. We conclude with some lessons learned from our case study, highlighting the epistemic and moral demands for trustworthy technology development as well as for public debates about such technologies, which ultimately requires attributing epistemic and moral duties to all actors involved.

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