Case study: SCIENCE FIT PROGRAMME
Nature of interaction with business: COLLABORATION IN R&D
natture of good practise project: STRUCTURAL INSTRUMENT OR APPROACH
INTRODUCTION
The Science Fit programme has been launched as a joint venture of three universities (Graz University of Technology, Montan University Leoben, Karl Franzens University Graz) and one research institute (Joanneum Research). The funding is provided by the EU, the Government of Styria and the Municipality of Graz.
The programme’s aim is to help small and medium sized businesses to use academic institutions more frequently to solve problems, and to provide access to students and graduates of the Styrian universities. Moreover, the programme especially aims to facilitate technology and knowledge transfer from universities to …show more content…
The City of Graz has been a generous sponsor since 1994 and has always been of great assistance, regardless which government was in power.
Funding is given for programmes which either have a short lifespan or which are long-term projects such as Science Fit. Before money is provided to Science Fit, an analysis is conducted regarding how high the personnel costs from the different transfer institutes are, secondly how the individual team is set up and finally the actual period of the particular project.
As the Science Fit programme only facilitates and utilises the different funding instruments the personnel costs are higher than material costs. The only material costs are the marketing costs of the project although these are usually very low. The funding of the programme is generous because the main task of Science Fit is to facilitate universities with SMEs which have a practical need and it also points out to the different institutes and companies the potential of different existing R&D funding programmes and projects. Therefore it has a high leverage
Nature of interaction with business: COLLABORATION IN R&D
natture of good practise project: STRUCTURAL INSTRUMENT OR APPROACH
INTRODUCTION
The Science Fit programme has been launched as a joint venture of three universities (Graz University of Technology, Montan University Leoben, Karl Franzens University Graz) and one research institute (Joanneum Research). The funding is provided by the EU, the Government of Styria and the Municipality of Graz.
The programme’s aim is to help small and medium sized businesses to use academic institutions more frequently to solve problems, and to provide access to students and graduates of the Styrian universities. Moreover, the programme especially aims to facilitate technology and knowledge transfer from universities to …show more content…
The City of Graz has been a generous sponsor since 1994 and has always been of great assistance, regardless which government was in power.
Funding is given for programmes which either have a short lifespan or which are long-term projects such as Science Fit. Before money is provided to Science Fit, an analysis is conducted regarding how high the personnel costs from the different transfer institutes are, secondly how the individual team is set up and finally the actual period of the particular project.
As the Science Fit programme only facilitates and utilises the different funding instruments the personnel costs are higher than material costs. The only material costs are the marketing costs of the project although these are usually very low. The funding of the programme is generous because the main task of Science Fit is to facilitate universities with SMEs which have a practical need and it also points out to the different institutes and companies the potential of different existing R&D funding programmes and projects. Therefore it has a high leverage