Guidelines for Improving Industry-Institute Research

Abstract

Research plays a key role in improving the quality of education, which enables the student to improve innovative thinking and also to apply knowledge for a better society. The advantage for an institute in industry-institute collaboration is to provide placements and internships to the students which ultimately improve employability opportunities. An industry needs assistance of specialists for doing analysis of research problems. This resource is available in the engineering institutions. Hence a collaborative research benefits both industry and institute. This is cost effective solution for industry and a technology booster for institute. The highest level of industry institute collaboration is industry institute research. This can help the institute in building up their research profile and also for the industry to get research solutions to their problems, and gain access to intellectual property to convert them into business at large. This paper presents case studies of institutions that have established industry institution collaborations and research, and presents detailed guidelines for private self-financed affiliated colleges to develop industry institute collaborations and to establish industry institute research which could result in improvement of research activities of an institute resulting in improved quality of technical education.