2007
Collaborative Research and Development ProjectsA Practical Guide Authors:

• Dr Tom Harris
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ISBN: 978-3-540-46052-7 (Print) 978-3-540-46053-4 (Online)

• About this book
  

• Offers a guide to creating and running successful collaborative research and development projects
• Step-by-step coverage guides a project team though a challenging venture, helping them avoid potential pitfalls
• Helps industrial readers to understand the practicalities of working with academics and helps academic readers to understand the nature and expectations of their industrial partners
  

This volume will help individuals and organizations, from both academia and industry, to effectively work together on R&D projects. Whether grant funded, company to company, or academic to company, this inspiring and highly readable book covers winning grant support, the legal arrangements, working with academics and practitioners, managing project progress, and exploiting the project results. Step-by-step coverage guides a project team though a challenging venture, helping them avoid potential pitfalls. The book includes many examples, practical methods, and tips that will not only help prepare for grant applications but, more importantly, help achieve the best results and returns from every collaborative project.