A scheme for industry-academia interaction to enhance research and development issues

摘要

Interaction of industry and academia is a prerequisite for the success of the European quality movement. Stimulating, managing and structuring such interaction is a basic objective of ENBIS (European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics) and the related EU Thematic Network Pro-ENBIS. The industrial visit is one of the essential tools of the Network. To be successful, such visits have to be well-prepared, structured, and integrated into a global concept of industry-academia interaction. Exploiting experiences from recent industrial visits, we develop a structured scheme and evaluate this scheme from the point of view of TQM principles. To promote successful industry-academia relations, Pro-ENBIS is strongly interested in cooperating with management and engineering networks like ESRA. We make some suggestions on this topic.