Technology Transfer: Academia to Industry
Mehnen, J.1, a; Roy, R.1, b
- 1)
- Decision Engineering Centre, University Cranfield, Cranfield, United Kingdom
a) j.mehnen@cranfield.ac.uk; b) r.roy@cranfield.ac.uk
Kurzfassung
High quality and innovativeness are major selling points. Continuous improvement of products and the introduction of completely new products is a day to day challenge industry has to face to keep competitive in a dynamic market. Customer desires change, new materials and techniques become available, new views like whole life cycle cost of a product become an issue. Keeping up with these changes is difficult and the application of the most recent techniques in a sound and effective way is often not straight forward. Academia is a ‘producer’ of novel and scientifically well founded approaches. Furthermore, academia has a rich pool of thoroughly tested methods and well educated students and professional academics. Technology transfer between academia and industry is a way to bridge the gap between ‘mysterious’ theory and ‘plain’ practice. Various aspects of this transfer are discussed in this chapter. The most recent technology in multi-objective optimization is introduced in a helpful and practical way to illustrate with an example the difficulties but also the challenges that come along with cooperation between academia and industry.
Schlüsselwörter
Knowledge Transfer, Academia, Industry, Modelling, Optimisation
Veröffentlichung
In: Evolutionary Computation in Practice, Yu, T.; Davis, L. (Hrsg.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-75770-2, S. 263-281, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-75771-9_12