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Engaging Researchers on and off Campus to Nurture Sustainable Corporate Partnerships Peter Dorhout, Kansas State University Joseph Heppert, Texas Tech University... K-State Strategic Pri

Engaging Researchers on and off Campus to Nurture Sustainable

Corporate Partnerships

Peter Dorhout, Kansas State University Joseph Heppert, Texas Tech University

K-State Strategic Private Partnerships

Current Drivers of Success: Improvements to be made:

1 Significant time engagement to determine

what is important to the company

2 Diverse teams allowed for diverse discussions

–KSU exposed to unknown company needs

and Partner was exposed to unknown KSU

capabilities

3 Set company and university leads and

improved communication, both with

company and internally

4 Continued progress between SPPG meetings

5 Followed the relationship

1 Develop metrics for “What is a strategic partnership?”

2 Identify additional potential strategic partners

3 Improve internal communications

4 Prioritize this initiative campus-wide

5 Build additional bandwidth

6 Professional Development for faculty

Investing in programs and facilities to solve

Providing solutions to

K-State

Strategic Partners:

• Relationship manager(s) and coordinated team

• Customized, streamlined solutions developed with the strategic partner

• Strategic research agreement – talent centers

Non-Strategic/Potential Strategic Partners:

• Collaborative effort to expand the relationship (support units, college & department leadership)

• Facilitated, centralized multifaceted engagement

• Strategy validation

• Strategy Implementation

• Communication

I-Teams

• Strategy validation

• Tracking

• Partnership ID

Leadershi p Meeting

• Strategy Creation

• Strategy Implementation

• Communicate

I-Teams

Comprehensive

K-State Strategic Partnership Engagement

Company A Economic Development

Company A Economic Development

Engaging Researchers on and off Campus to Nurture Sustainable Corporate Partnerships

Peter Dorhout, Kansas State University

Joseph Heppert, Texas Tech University

Key Components of a Vibrant Corporate

• Outward-facing expert databases

Academic and Curricular

• MBA degree programs

• Entrepreneurship education

programs

Offices and Programs

• Research Centers and Institutes

• Endowment/Advancement office

• Research commercialization office

• Student internship programming

• Alumni Association/College alumni offices

• Corporate engagement office or embedded corporate engagement personnel

• Research consortium partnerships

Aspects of Institutional Culture that Promote and Drive Sustainable Industry Relationships

• Intellectual property—ownership, licensure, etc.

• Consortium partnerships agreements

• Corporate philanthropy

• Sponsored research/contracts

• Fee for service activity

• Consulting

• Promotion and tenure

• Startup/spin off formation

Questions in Realigning a Corporate

Partnership Ecosystem

• What factors seem to drive sustainable industry/faculty partnerships?

• What events/activities does your institution sponsor to foster existing faculty/industry interaction?

• What intentional strategies is your institution using to foster new

industry partnerships?

• Which components of the corporate partnership ecosystem are most closely integrated and due to their integration provide the greatest support for faculty/industry collaboration?

• What key performance indicators are most useful for evaluating your university-industry partnerships?

New Institutional 501C3 Platform for Supporting Corporate Partnerships

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