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Consultancy in the university or research institute context involves leveraging academic expertise to provide specialised advice and solutions to external organisations.
This course highlights the importance of structuring consultancy agreements and ensuring compliance with consultancy policy to maximise benefits, including enhanced societal impact, additional revenue for the institution, and professional growth for researchers.
Participants will explore how knowledge transfer partnerships can be harnessed to drive innovation and ensure successful consultancy engagements.
The course also covers best practices in training and knowledge transfer, helping institutions create a robust consultancy policy that supports impactful collaborations between academia and external organisations.
Why Join The course?
We expect that by the end of these 3 days you will have developed your understanding of how academic consultancy fits into the wider university context; how to raise its profile as a worthwhile activity for research institutions to support and how it adds value.
Course Objectives
The course objectives are to:
- Gain awareness of different models of support for consultancy
- Understand the benefits and challenges
- Understand how various approaches can impact on policy development and operational set up
Key Topics
The key course topics are:
- What is consultancy and why should we support it?
- Consultancy policy and its implications
- Risks and mitigation
- Exploring the legal issues and key contractual terms
- Different operational models discussion
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Testimonials
A must-do for any staff involved in technology transfer and start-up creation.
Frederic Ratel
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain
Technology transfer is ever changing and a key piece for the competitiveness of your institution, this course is an excellent tool to prepare yourself for that challenge.
Ricardo Castro
Centre for research in agricultural Genomics, Spain
It was great to experience the uncomplicated and fruitful exchange with colleagues from all over Europe, as well as the positive professional spirit of this conference.
Franck Döbrich
Universitat des Saarlandes WuT GmbH, Germany
The software training filled in the many blanks and brought my 'fractioned' knowledge in a structured way. Very useful!
Ilse Sienaert
KU Leuven R&D, Belgium
ASTP brought the right structure and terminology to my knowledge of technology licensing.
René Widmer
ETH Transfer, Switzerland
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