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Engaging with business: innovative industry partnerships supporting
research at the University of Nottingham
Neil Smyth: DART June 2012
The shape of things to come
1. Introduction: Re-skilling for Research
2. Group exercise
3. Engaging with Business
4. Group exercise
5. Digital transformations
6. Questions and answers
Wider context
Retooling
“We can all suffer from the inertia which finds plausible ways of not having to go through yet another learning process.”
“all librarians must be prepared to retool if they do not have the necessary expertise”
“many problems coping with the pace of change”
1990 British Library Colin Campbell
Re-Skilling For Research
1. Conceptualising new research, developing proposals, identifying funding opportunities;
2. seeking new information;3. information management;4. research data collection;5. research data discovery, management and curation;6. sharing, discussion, online collaboration;7. analysing and reflecting on information and data;8. writing up and dissemination;9. compliance, intellectual property, copyright and other statutory
requirements;10. preservation;11. quality assessment and measuring impact;12. commercialisation;13. emerging technology.
Re-Skilling For Research
Re-Skilling For Research
“Our jobs are shifting from doing what we’ve always done very well to always being on the
lookout for new opportunities to advance teaching, learning, service, and research”
Brian Matthews
Why is Engaging with business important?
1. University strategy
2. Research councils (AHRC)
3. Research bids (AHRC)
Engaging with Business
Engaging with BusinessMutually beneficial relations with business and industry were part of
our founding and remain a key priority.
We will maintain a positive, customer-focused, facilitating
dialogue with commercial partners.
Recognising and developing opportunities for business
engagement on behalf of the University is increasingly part
of the role of the modern academic.
Government policy statements and publications increasingly stress
engagement between industry and higher education
Industry partnerships will play an increasingly important role in
Research Council grant awards,
cash support from commercial partners is often a prerequisite for
the award of large research and commercial development centres.
Engaging with Business
Build mutually beneficial partnerships with like-minded
organisations
Invite businesses to work with us, at all our locations and
across the full range of our activities, with a coordinated
and coherent entry point for both proactive and reactive discussions.
Increase engagement with business by all parts of the
University and across all aspects of our core activities.
Engaging with Business
AHRC
What about the Arts and Humanities?
Industry partnerships play an increasingly important role in
Research Council grant awards
It adds to the economic success of the UK, through its
contributions to the knowledge economy and
innovation agenda
AHRC
Supporting research in this environment means engaging with
business.
Librarians supporting research must engage with business.
Many different ways and levels of interaction.
Support for Research workspace
Research Support Framework
AHRC – Highlight notices
Being in at the start of the process
One type of start: Highlight Notice
Highlight notices are intended to stimulate proposals under specified themes or initiatives in order to rapidly advance thinking in these areas.
Digital transformation
Conceptualising new research
Identifying funding
opportunities
Developing research
proposals
Digital transformations
Identifying fundi
ng opportunities
Conceptualisin
g new research
Developin
g research proposals
Identifying funding opportunities
There are many people identifying funding opportunities at universities.
Librarians need to be, too.
Support
Be meaningfullyinvolved in related processes.
Conceptualising new researchConceptualising new research
Different hearts of University
Innovative industry partnerships
Research and commercialisation starts with industry partnerships
“Probing these research issues will engage a broad range of partners in
creative and cultural industries”
Examples:Theatre companies;National institutions;Galleries;Publishing;Law;Media companies.
Innovative industry partnershipsBalance
People who can work together
Knowledge of organisations with a history of working together
successfully
Commercial partners same sector
collaborating and competing
• individual histories
• organisational histories
Innovative industry partnerships
ECCO/EEBO cross searchability
Informal interactions
Formal interactions
Informal moves to formal
(letters/agreements)
Personal moves to project or
network
Project or network moves to Corporate
Letter of support
AHRC
Level of commitment of the proposed
partner
Added value to the project of the involvement.
Nature of the contribution
Letter of support
Letter of support
Personal relationships
Informal interactions
Future activities
Welcome event July 2012
Imperial War Museum
Broadway
The National Archives
British Library
ProQuest
Cengage
References
1. No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/pub142.pdf
2. Research Library Issues. A Special Issue on Liaison Librarian Roles. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/rli-265.pdf
3. The Value of Academic Libraries: a Comprehensive Research Review and Report. http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/value/val_report.pdf
4. Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services. http://www.educationadvisoryboard.com/pdf/23634-EAB-Redefining-the-Academic-Library.pdf
5. Re-skilling for Research. http://www.rluk.ac.uk/files/RLUK%20Re-skilling.pdf
6. Think Like A Startup: a white paper to inspire library entrepreneurialism. http://tinyurl.com/75orp9p
References
7. Connect, Collaborate, and Communicate: A Report from the Value of Academic Libraries Summits.http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/value/val_summit.pdf
8. Working together: evolving value for academic libraries. http://libraryvalue.wordpress.com/report/
9. Scholarly communication and serials prices: proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries and the British Library Research and Development Department 11-13 June 1990. Edited by Karen Brookfield. Bowker Saur, 1991.
10. The University of Nottingham Strategic Plan 2010-2015.http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/documents/universityofnottinghamstrategicplan2010-15.pdf
11. The Quiet Revolution: how strategic partnerships and alliances are reshaping the higher education system. PA Consulting. (Available on request from the company)
Images
1. Microsoft Clip Art and Sample Art is Used with permission from Microsoft:http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/Copyright/Default.aspx
2. University of Nottingham images supplied courtesy of the University of Nottingham © 2012.
3. Other images used Copyright © Neil Smyth 2012.
Engaging with business: innovative industry partnerships supporting
research at the University of Nottingham
Neil Smyth: DART June 2012