Industry Liaison

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Building Campus-Industry Alliances

RL&D enables industry-university collaborations by lowering the barriers to mutually beneficial industry-sponsored research through staff services, resources, and initiatives expressly designed to facilitate industry partnerships. RL&D aims to build greater capacity for successful and productive industry relationships campuswide.

Successful Industry/University Collaborations:
• Support the mission of each partner;
• Foster long-term relationships and collaborations; and
• Streamline negotiations to ensure timely conduct of research.

RL&D helps faculty enhance their competitiveness for industrial support through:
• Strategic planning and assessment for industry engagement;
• Access to our database of industry contacts and information on campus collaborations;
• Connections to industrial funding opportunities and proposal development support;
• Assistance navigating campus processes for industry/university collaboration;
• Strategies for marketing your project/program to industry; and
• Tracking and reporting the campus’s activities with industry.

Selected Resources:

Research Leadership in Action Program - The Research Leadership in Action internal grant program gives departments and schools an important element in their strategic plans to identify and foster professional contacts with industry and other external partners which will ultimately result in increasing sponsored research activity.

Corporate Funding Opportunities - a gateway to open and invitation-only requests for proposals.

Industry Liaison Network - brings together members of campus who work with industry to collaboratively enhance our capacity to support successful industry relations. Join the Network.

Corporate Access - a gateway for companies interested in accessing the campus's talent, technology and professional education.

Industry Associations:

Contact RL&D Industry Liaison