Industry-academia collaborations from scientific and contractual perspectives

The first part of the session will be dedicated to the organization and contractual aspects to establish collaborations between academia and industry.  

The second part of the session will showcase concrete examples of collaborations. Companies of all sizes and researchers are invited to present their joint projects and interdisciplinary collaborations. In particular, the session will discuss how to enable communication between people with different expertise and backgrounds, what are the challenges and the advantages of such collaborations, and what can be done to increase opportunities. It also aims at discussing how researchers can better target company intentions on the one hand, and on the other hand, how can company researchers better leverage academic skills and technologies. 

Important dates

• 9 January 2023 - Call for presentations opens
• 14 April 2023 - Call for presentations closes
• beginning June 2023 - Acceptance notification
• 13 September 2023 - Presentation at [BC]²

All abstracts must be presented in English. The abstract text should not exceed 2'500 characters (~ 400 words). When writing your abstract, please make sure to give a brief and concise summary of the background/motivation for the collaboration, the type of collaboration, the involvement of both parties in the project (private/public), the technology transfers involved (if applicable) and the lessons learned.

Abstracts have to be submitted via an online submission form.

We encourage submissions from companies of all sizes and researchers.

Submissions to this category do not refrain you from submitting to any other conference topic.