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SUMMARY:A Design Approach to Understanding Academia-Industry Collaboration
  - Eva-Maria Hempe\, Final year Doctoral Candiate\, Engineering Design Cen
 tre
DTSTART:20101027T150000Z
DTEND:20101027T160000Z
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CONTACT:Saba Hinrichs
DESCRIPTION:There is an increased appreciation of the potential benefits o
 f more design thinking in policy making. Design thinking means amongst oth
 ers\, a more thorough exploration of needs and a better understanding of c
 ontext. Such a design-focused approach could also benefit efforts to foste
 r academia-industry collaboration in Japan. In order to learn from what wo
 rks in other countries it is necessary to be able to describe the existing
  situation both abroad and at home. In addition we need a way to character
 ize countries along a meaningful set of dimensions to identify transferabl
 e elements for domestic programs. We present a framework for such a cross-
 national comparison. It consists of two classification schemes\, one for a
 cademia-industry collaboration mechanisms and one for government initiativ
 es which seek to foster these collaborations\, as well as a set of dimensi
 ons for structural comparison of Japan and Western European countries. We 
 carried out some proof of concept work for Japan and the United Kingdom an
 d used the dimension set to identify candidates for future comparisons. 
LOCATION:Arthur Marshall Meeting Room (next to EDC loft)\, Inglis Building
 \, Engineering Department
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