Optimising university – industry ecosystems

The global corporation had built strategic relationships with a number of universities and research institutions in Europe, North American and Asia. The R&D leadership team wished to make this research ecosystem more effective. But how? 

We worked with the corporate leadership team and with each of the research institutions to identify what was working well, what could be better, what opportunities were being lost, and what barriers needed to be removed – for both sides of the partnership.

Our work drove fundamental changes to how the business worked with the universities and how the universities organised themselves to present a 'one institute' face to their corporate partners.