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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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