This volume will help individuals and organizations, from both academia and industry, to effectively working 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 through 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.

Guide to creating and running successful collaborative research and development projects Takes the project team by the hand in the challenging venture ahead of them Helps industrial readers to understand the practicalities of working with academics and it helps academic readers to understand the nature and expectations of their industrial partners Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Grant funding.- Legal arrangements.- Getting off to a good start.- Maintaining momentum.- Working with academics.- Working with industrialists.- Managing problems.- Exploiting the results.- Project completion.- Closing remarks.