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Universities and RTO ’ s: Future cooperation needs

Universities and RTO ’ s: Future cooperation needs. Ramon Marimon Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona EARTO, March 3, 2006, Lisbon . What we have missed. The University was an European invention

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Universities and RTO ’ s: Future cooperation needs

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  1. Universities and RTO’s: Future cooperation needs Ramon Marimon Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona EARTO, March 3, 2006, Lisbon Ramon Marimon

  2. What we have missed • The University was an European invention • But the Research-Entrepreneurial University has been, possibly, the most profitable US invention in the 20th Century • There is no much need to talk about –say, MIT, or Stanford, or Giorgia-Tech– RTO cooperation… • The main EU University-RTO cooperation need is to make the EU universities open and competitive to make them Research-Entrepreneurial Universities! Ramon Marimon

  3. The problem is not • That EU does not produce PhDs in Science and Engineering • That there is no private investment in University R&D • That there is no European demand for frontier research • That SMEs do not cooperate • That there are not EU positive University-RTO experiences Ramon Marimon

  4. If anything EU produces more PhDs in S&E Ramon Marimon

  5. There is private investment In fact, relative private investment in university R&D is not lower in EU (6,6%) than in US (US 4,5%) EC, Key Figures 2005. and R&D/GDP performed in universities is not lower in EU (0,44%) than in US (0,43%) Ramon Marimon

  6. Except that part of the demand is fulfilled overseas… • Novartis is moving its main R&D to Cambridge, US (to be closer to more than one hundred research groups…) Ramon Marimon

  7. and Europe continues to invest more on R&D abroad Ramon Marimon

  8. True, SMEs play a larger role in EU R&D Ramon Marimon

  9. But they also know how to cooperate… Ramon Marimon

  10. True, cooperation has improved and we have positive experiences • From Framework Programmes (although NofE has not been a good instrument for cooperation) • From the development of University based Science and Technology Parks • From closer links of Technology Centers with Universities • From a need to “outsource firms’ R&D” • From greater awareness, e.g., EARTO! Ramon Marimon

  11. But, the global picture is weak • Private funding on higher education (/GDP) is much lower in EU (0,20%) than in US (1,77%) and this lack of private funding is not offset by a higher public funding in EU (1,08%) vs. US (1,48%). • Under funded universities are poor partners; particularly poor if universities • do not properly reward those who bring in a successful cooperation • do not have structures that allow for stable partnerships with industry (with IPR agreements) • confuse cooperation with ‘faculty consulting,’ or a way to get public (e.g., FP7) funding Ramon Marimon

  12. The solution is not • To increase, across the border, public university funding • Set up ‘European MITs’ (e.g., Italy, Austria, EIT,…) Although they may help Ramon Marimon

  13. But to change the University accountability & reward structure • For the same universities, making them compete for resources: students, competitive R&D funds, cooperative RTO agreements • For the centers and departments, within them, making them compete in their fields • For the faculty and researchers, making them more mobile and productive Ramon Marimon

  14. and resources will align with quality… making & allowing all of them compete at the EU, and global knowledge society, level setting more public funds on a competitive basis Ramon Marimon

  15. US Universities: research rank vs. resources (per student) resources Source: The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance 2002; The Center rank Ramon Marimon

  16. Universities and RTO’s: Future cooperation needs • There are many specific needs that ‘need’ to be accounted for: IPR agreements, better mutual knowledge of capabilities and needs, etc. • But, in my opinion, there is one major need… Ramon Marimon

  17. To change the ‘social contract of cooperation’ • From a ‘short sighted’ contract in which • universities see cooperation as an immediate source for cash • firms, and other RTOs, see cooperation as a cheap & easy source of knowledge • both sides see it as minor activity • both sides are uninterested on the other’s major activity (e.g., education vs. products) Ramon Marimon

  18. Universities and RTO’s cooperation • To a ‘long sighted’ contract in which • both sides see cooperation as part of the process of knowledge creation • both sides see the long term rewards of strengthening education and the economy • there is no much need to talk about Ramon Marimon

  19. University accountability & reward (& governance) structures! • For most EU universities, such ‘long sighted’ contract requires a reform of their Ramon Marimon

  20. Thanks! Ramon Marimon

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