This report summarizes discussions and insights from the workshop on Overcoming Barriers to Collaborative Research held March 23–24, 1998, in Irvine, California. The workshop was organized by the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss barriers to university-industry cooperation and to explore concrete approaches to overcoming them. Practitioners from universities and industry, as well as government policy makers, participated in the two-day workshop.

Contents

• [The National Academies]
• Acknowledgments
• Executive Summary
  • Trends in University-Industry Collaboration
  • Barriers to Collaboration and Tools to Overcome Them
  • Possible Future Tasks
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Trends in University-Industry Research Collaboration
• Chapter 3. Barriers and Lessons of Effective Practices
  • Issues of Culture, Management, and Goal Alignment
  • Issues of Institutional Incentives and Integration of Research and Educational Missions
  • Issues of Proprietary Rights
• Chapter 4. Possible Future Tasks
• Appendix A Presentation by Francis Via Director of Contract Research, Akzo Corporate Research at the Workshop on Overcoming Barriers to Collaborative Research March 23–24, 1998
• Appendix B Presentation by Teri Willey Vice-President, ARCH Development Corporation at the Workshop on Overcoming Barriers to Collaborative Research March 23–24, 1998
• Appendix C University-Industry Collaborations Discussed at the Workshop
• Appendix D Workshop Agenda
• Appendix E Workshop Participants
• Endnotes

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant ENG-9728967 and by the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Defense under MOU-725. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Commerce, or U.S. Department of Defense.