The hidden billions: where university-industry partnerships actually break down.
Chapter 4 of The Helikon Method is coming shortly as a free standalone PDF. A data-grounded look at the eight persistent friction areas that explain why most U.S. industry never reaches the university R&D it depends on. Join the waitlist and we will send it the moment it is out.
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The gap between potential and actual university-industry research output is the chapter’s central concern. Eight friction areas recur across institutions: partner discovery, IP negotiation, contract timelines, misaligned incentives, cultural differences, capacity constraints, evaluation challenges, and trust and relationships.
The chapter closes with the Partnership Pain Point Diagnostic, an eight-area, 26-item self-assessment that returns the reader’s top three friction areas with recommended next steps.
This is the chapter corporate R&D leaders and TTO directors may find the most useful as a first read. It is coming shortly, and it will be free. If you recognize your operation in it, the rest of the book walks you through the fixes, phase by phase.
Grounded in our primary research (Flowers and Roadman, 2024) across five major U.S. public research universities, plus public data from AUTM, NSF, NSB, and the Global Innovation Index.
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