Joining a collaborative project has huge benefits.
Benefits for small and medium-sized enterprises
Help from other parties.
Assistance with product development.
Test your products or services on the market.
Gain contacts with networks and customers.
Receive insights and perspectives from others.
Get external feedback from groups that you would not otherwise come into contact with.
Get help with your business intelligence.
Opportunities to interact with people on levels in an organisation that you would not otherwise reach.
Risk-reduction by part-funding of planned activities.
Benefits for researchers and clinicians
Resources in the form of funding or access to equipment.
Experience and networks are some of the most common advantages of collaborating with trade and industry.
Collaboration can provide new insights into external parties’ needs and problems, which is knowledge that can improve the quality of your research.
Researchers working in environments outside of the university have the opportunity to discover new types of research problems and needs, and are given the opportunity to try out ideas and research findings in realistic experiments. By working closely with an organisation, researchers may also be given access to historic and current data from the organisation itself.
