1. BusinessCollaboration
Accelerator Pilot
Business CollaborationTeam
Research Services

2. May-June
• Map out present
BC situation
• Interviews
• Survey
(July)-August
• Dialogues
between
University
researchers and
leaders
September-
October
• Match-making
event
November-
December
• Pricing training
at PI meeting
January-March
• Training new
tenure track
researchers on BC
matters
2018 2019
MOOC
Business Finland funding instruments
Communications: social media, blog posts, success stories
Training on impact/topics of interest
Business Collaboration Pilot Program

3. Overview of
current
situation
(May-June)
 Interviews
 Researchers already working with companies
 Kinds of collaboration, motivation, benefits and challenges
 Identify success stories
 Blog articles
 Survey  Will help tailor the pilot
 Overview of business collaboration statistics
 What researchers want and need from companies
 What researchers believe they can offer companies
 What kind of training and support researchers want from our team

4. Dialogue
(August)
 Maarit Haataja andTanja Suni trained in organizing dialogues
 Between faculty leaders and researchers
 Openly discuss interests, motivations and wants in terms of
business collaboration

5. Training
(throughoutthe year)
 Training on impact
 Useful for grants and communicating the effects of your research
on society/industry
 Tailored training on business collaboration
 Models of collaboration, intellectual property, stakeholder
engagement, agreements and negotiations
 Online course on business collaboration (June)
 1h, done in own time
 ABC of business collaboration
 Pricing  PI meeting in December
 How to put a price on your collaborative projects
 What needs to be taken into account, the do’s and don’ts
 Training for new tenure track researchers starting in 2019

6. Match-Making
Event
(September/October)
 Seminars, workshops, pitching sessions, one-on-one
meetings…
 Many different options
 Pitching your own research to the industry
 Invite the industry to tell us what they are seeking
 Brainstorming new research questions
 Aims
 Networking
 Coming up with new ideas and research questions
 Attracting resources from the industry
 Building joint projects

7. Support for
Business
Finland
Funding
Instruments
(throughout)
 Co-creation/Co-innovation funding
 Requires companies to be involved
 Can help with:
 Identifying suitable companies
 Provide support for the discussions
 Coaching for the application

8. Commercialization
(canbearrangedifneeded)
 Helsinki Innovation Services (HIS)
 Invention disclosures, IP and commercialization of research
 Innovation clinic
 One-on-one meetings with researchers
 Discuss research, possibilities for inventions and commercialization
 Commercialization policy at the University

9. Previous
Survey
Example
 An example of what we can find out with a survey

10. 0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Research
collaboration
Project
course
collaboration
Data
collection
from
companies
Guest
lectures
at/from
companies
Master theses consulting Feedback for
research
ideas
employed by
company
Previous experience in Business Collaboration

11. 0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
data funding networks &
collaboration
complementary
know-how,
collaborative result
interpretation
research questions infrastructures &
test beds
implementation of
results in practice,
impact
motivation, open
minds,
commitment
equipment
development
What do you need from companies?

12. Business collaboration
training
Assessing the business collaboration
potential of your work
Legal, financial, or negotiation
support
Help in commercialising your research
to products/spin-offs
Help in applying for external
funding
Anything else?
1. Matchmaking through a competence/
issue-mapping online platform
2. An active, flexible framework for providing
help with all of the above-mentioned
questions; I would add definitely also
research ethics training
3. Understanding the issues that companies
see as most relevant for their own
operations and, hence, (longer-term)
sustainability
4. A job in industry
5. Also linking to government sector
What kind of support would you like the university to provide?