BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY|OCTOBER 15, 2011

Faculty of Commerce & Economics

Department of Business Administration and Marketing

 

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Innovative University-Industry Partnerships

October 15, 2011

The Department of Business Administration and Marketing, Faculty of Commerce and Economics in Birzeit University is hosting a one-day conference entitled "Innovative University-Industry Partnerships" focusing on the role of university-industry partnerships in stimulating growth and accelerating innovation. The conference is being held on October 15th, 2011 on the university premises, in the Conference Hall of the Said Khoury Building for Development Studies. The British Council and PADICO are partners in this endeavor.

The purpose of this conference is to provide a platform in which research from overlapping branches meet and the opportunity for collegial networking and exchanging of ideas between academia and industry, the government, relevant NGOs, and expert sources of knowledge. International speakers from renowned universities specialized in the conference themes are participating therein, in addition to local speakers from the business community, academia and civil society. This collective contribution seeks to integrate both perspectives, thus providing benefit by bridging the gaps that exist between universities and industry in Palestine.

By engaging with local firms and encouraging them to share their expertise, skills and technology, universities can accommodate the nature and needs of local firms and thus yield creative collaborative arrangements that produce sufficiently qualified, highly relevant graduates and university programs tailored to local industry requirements. Through the support of an enabling environment, the universities would benefit from the opportunities on hand to increase their resources and collaborate with firms to successfully upgrade and commercialize their products through flexible licensing agreements. In return, industry should be able to effectively capitalize on universities' knowledge-based ideas, skills, intellectual exploration and research.

Conference Objective: To shed light on the need to develop long-lasting innovative relationships and trust between the universities and industry with support from the public sector and to demonstrate how collaborative relationships embedded in innovative thinking could create enhanced value for both parties and have positive spillover effects that are beneficial to all the constituents and to the Palestinian economy.

Who will be Attending?

• Palestinian Industry
• Scholars (Domestic & Foreign)
• NGOs, Developmental & Community Based Organizations
• Policy Makers