Academia - Industry Collaborations

Academia - Industry Collaborations

Unlocking Strategic Academia-Industry Collaborations

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28 Oct - 29 Oct 2025 Barcelona, Spain
Members
€750.00
Non-members
€1,100.00

Join ASTP’s two-day thematic event dedicated to exploring the evolving landscape of academia-industry collaboration. Designed for knowledge and technology transfer professionals, this programme dives deep into how universities and research institutions can partner more strategically with industry to drive innovation, economic development, and societal impact.

Through presentations, industry panels, and interactive group sessions, attendees will gain insights into best practices, funding mechanisms, intellectual property challenges, and collaborative models that work. Whether you're looking to strengthen existing partnerships or build new ones, this event offers practical tools, peer learning, and a platform to shape the future of innovation ecosystems.

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Why Join?

The ASTP Thematic Event brings together diverse perspectives on how universities, research organisations, and industry can collaborate more strategically. Our sessions highlight best practices, challenges, and opportunities to strengthen partnerships and accelerate innovation.

  • Collaboration with Industry as a Strategic Asset
    Why moving from ad-hoc projects to a strategic approach multiplies research, impact, and policy outcomes

  • Bridging Industry and Research – A Business Perspective on Collaboration
    Leaders from industry share what companies seek in partnerships, how they align scientific and business goals, and the value these collaborations bring to innovation pipelines.

  • Open Innovation and the Quadruple Helix – KTTs as Ecosystem Connectors
    Exploring how open innovation models unite academia, government, civil society, and industry to co-create impactful solutions.

  • Funding as a Catalyst: Using Public Mechanisms to Support Industrial Engagement
    From regional grants to EU programmes: strategies for aligning industrial needs with public funding to build long-term partnerships.

  • Exploring Collaboration Models – What Fits Where?
    Interactive breakouts to compare models such as centralised IP offices, joint ventures, co-creation labs, and consortia.

  • Making Collaboration Work – Tackling IP Cases Together
    A hands-on workshop where participants solve real intellectual property and licensing challenges through peer learning.

  • Pros and Cons of Industry–Research Organisation Collaboration – An Open Debate
    Honest reflections on trust, IP, timelines, incentives, and cultural differences—what helps and what hinders collaboration.


About the Venue

The ASTP Thematic Event will take place at CosmoCaixa Museum of Science in Barcelona, a landmark where curiosity and collaboration come to life. With its interactive exhibits, immersive spaces, and iconic architecture, CosmoCaixa offers more than just a backdrop — it reflects the very essence of knowledge transfer: connecting ideas, people, and disciplines to create real-world impact.

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Testimonials

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International presence is amazing, so many countries, universities... represented here!!

Christian Massus

SATT Aquitaine, France

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Technology transfer is ever changing and a key piece for the competitiveness of your institution, this course is an excellent tool to prepare yourself for that challenge.

Ricardo Castro

Centre for research in agricultural Genomics, Spain

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A must-do for any staff involved in technology transfer and start-up creation.

Frederic Ratel

Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain

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ASTP corroborates the strong need for profound insights and exchanges on practices, instruments and competencies that cut across functional, organisational, institutional, sectorial and geographic boundaries.

Koenraad Debackere

KU Leuven, Belgium

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Three days of learning and networking in Dublin at ASTP annual conference. What a great event!!

Sandra Aresta

CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal