One of the key output of the CITT project was the survey conducted among the top Centrope ICT companies and university institutions. Our team at FIRST Innovation Park approached over 50 premium ICT companies in South Moravia and received 34 answered questioannaires. Let’s look at one of the questions – what are the main barriers for your cooperation with academic research?
Several companies mentioned university departments concentrated too much on theoretic approaches and the fundamental research, having only few researchers with practical experience and little trust in commercial activities. They also lack stronger discipline and training for real-life situations at students.
Our respondents often quoted very complex and hardly usable legislation for sharing experiences & research results and problems with the intellectual property protection. They reported a missing concept for technology transfer, insufficient rules and decision making process taking too long at the university side.
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