🤝 Facilitating mutually beneficial and also pleasant #cooperation between academic institutions and companies was one of the key ideas behind the creation of UNICO. And eight years later, it is still very much on our agenda, this time in the form of Technology Scout training for The World Bank and Ministarstvo znanosti i obrazovanja | Ministry of Science and Education in 🇭🇷. #innovationconsultancy #training
Co-founder and co-CEO at UNICO ◆ Delivering Innovation ◆ R&D management ◆ B2S collaboration ◆ Technology hunting
The last of a series of UNICO workshops in the Technology Scout training for The World Bank and Ministarstvo znanosti i obrazovanja | Ministry of Science and Education was a joint session with Vojtech Nosek on managing collaboration between an academic institution and a company from the perspective of a technology scout. And what Technology Scouts can bring to the collaboration between a company and an academic institution? ✔️ Clear Communication and Alignment ✔️ Evidence-Based Decision Making ✔️ Trust, Empathy, and Understanding ✔️ Regular Monitoring and Feedback Loops ✔️ Sustainability and Long-Term Relationship Building It is the absence of these soft aspects that causes the most common problems. And how to do it practically? Actually, it takes little that means a lot - regularity and consistency in managing individual projects. This, together with quality content, leads to the gradual building of trust and long-term partnerships. Last but not least, a good dose of improvisational skills is needed, as some unexpected problem will almost always arise. Thank you for great discussion to all our participants Boško Ljubenkov, Tamara Aleksandrov Fabijanić, Vesna Gabelica Markovic, Ivana Carev, PhD, Ana Misevic, Danijel Bertović, Sven Gotovac, Nataša Šijaković Vujičić, Mislav Jurisic, Deni Nurkić, Mirjana Puljic Dozan, Mario Vukelić, Hrvoje Lovric, Marija Sigurnjak Bureš and Radoslav Ostermann. Thanks also to Irena Ivandić, Todor Milchevski, Ante Loncar, Iva Trajkovska and Jasmina Mrkonja for their support with the implementation. And not to forget the heroic performance of Vojtech Nosek in UTMB Istria 100 💪