Sowing the seeds - starting the relationship

摘要

Communication skills for many engineers and indeed scientists cannot be considered a strong point and this can cause problems when establishing a CRC partnership, according to Peacock. "We are often quite introverted, so getting people to go out and network and find out about different opportunities in the market and what the needs are can be a problem." Laver agreed: "The problem with industry is they often don't know what research is being done. They don't realise that if they actively tried to participate in a CRC they would find a leveraged way of discovering some new technology much more efficiently."