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Consultancy in the university or research institute context involves leveraging academic expertise to provide specialised advice and solutions to external organisations.
This course highlights the importance of structuring consultancy agreements and ensuring compliance with consultancy policy to maximise benefits, including enhanced societal impact, additional revenue for the institution, and professional growth for researchers.
Participants will explore how knowledge transfer partnerships can be harnessed to drive innovation and ensure successful consultancy engagements.
The course also covers best practices in training and knowledge transfer, helping institutions create a robust consultancy policy that supports impactful collaborations between academia and external organisations.
Why Join The course?
We expect that by the end of these 3 days you will have developed your understanding of how academic consultancy fits into the wider university context; how to raise its profile as a worthwhile activity for research institutions to support and how it adds value.
Course Objectives
The course objectives are to:
- Gain awareness of different models of support for consultancy
- Understand the benefits and challenges
- Understand how various approaches can impact on policy development and operational set up
Key Topics
The key course topics are:
- What is consultancy and why should we support it?
- Consultancy policy and its implications
- Risks and mitigation
- Exploring the legal issues and key contractual terms
- Different operational models discussion
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Testimonials
Was great to meet counterparts in my profession who may share my experiences, but who may also have other ideas and approaches.
Tim Moser
Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands
There was ample opportunity to learn from colleagues through the workshop sessions or more formally through speakers either sharing their years of experience or their state of the art research. Well worth attending.
John Gleeson
University of Limerick, Ireland
The software training filled in the many blanks and brought my 'fractioned' knowledge in a structured way. Very useful!
Ilse Sienaert
KU Leuven R&D, Belgium
I am happy to be able to share my own experiences with other colleagues via various courses, and I enjoy every moment I can spend in this network. Proud to be part of the ASTP community!
Paul van Dun
KU Leuven, Belgium
I strongly recommend the course, even if you are not going to set-up an office but you are part of the team that wants to change or improve how technology transfer is done at your institution.
Ricardo Castro
Centre for research in agricultural Genomics, Spain
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