collaboration – TechConnect Briefs

The benefits and challenges of Industry-Start Up-University collaboration for product development

Silveston-Keith R., University Industry Demonstration Partnership, US

There is an emerging trend for corporate R&D groups to engage with startups as corporations need to increase the pace of finding breakthrough technologies and make rapid transfer of science and technology into the marketplace. [...]

A Collaborative Approach to Architectural and Societal Issues in Nanotechnology

Elvin G., Woerner J., Ball State University, US

How will nanotechnology affect the way we design, make, and inhabit buildings? In the NanoSTUDIO, interdisciplinary groups of students from Ball State University’s Department of Architecture and the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Interprofessional Projects Program [...]

“Cultural Bonds” in High Technology: Collaborations between Chinese Researchers in Nanotechnology

Leung R., Li J., University of Wisconsin-Madison, US

Socio-cultural issues have attracted increasing attention from policy makers in high technology. For example, a certain “culture” of high-tech fear, exemplified by Michael Crichton’s best-selling novel Prey, seems to have emerged in U.S. In this [...]