Enterprise Collaboration Toolkit: Submit your case study

Please submit your Enterprise Collaboration Toolkit case study via the form below.

Co-authors should complete this form.

You can see the call for content here.

You can download a copy of the case study submission template here.

Lead author: Name *

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Lead author: Email *

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Lead author: University or institution *

We want to make sure you get appropriate credit for your work. How should we reference you in author attributions? * *

For example Sarah Jayne Hitt, Ph.D. SFHEA (NMITE, Edinburgh Napier University) or Professor Sarah Hitt (NMITE)

Did you create this contribution: *

Alone
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With multiple co-authors

Co-author names: Please list names and email addresses of ALL co-authors

Industry partner(s): Name of industry organisation(s): *

Industry partner(s): Sector *

Industry partner(s): Organisation size: For example, SME / Large organisation / Other *

Industry partner(s): Briefly describe the industry partner(s) and its role in the collaboration. *

Case study title *

Provide a short, engaging title that describes the collaboration or its main lesson.

Submission category: Primary *

1. Building and developing industry partnerships. Examples include: establishing a relationship with a new industry partner; moving from an informal relationship to a strategic partnership; developing long-term relationships rather than one-off projects; building trust between academic and industrial partners; creating effective university–industry networks or consortia; developing partnerships with SMEs or organisations that have limited experience of working with universities. Key question: What did you do to establish and develop a productive longer-term relationship?
2. Collaborative research, innovation and R&D. Examples include: collaborative research projects; industry-led or co-created research; contract research and consultancy developing into longer-term collaboration; translational research and technology development; industry participation in research programmes; commercialisation and exploitation of research; interdisciplinary university–industry R&D. Key question: How did the partnership turn academic expertise into research, innovation or value for industry
3. Knowledge exchange and innovation ecosystems. Examples include: knowledge-transfer partnerships; knowledge exchange between academics and industrial practitioners; innovation centres, institutes or hubs; regional innovation ecosystems; industry networks and clusters; shared facilities, laboratories or demonstrators; mechanisms for transferring knowledge into industrial practice. Key question: What mechanisms and structures enabled knowledge and expertise to flow effectively between university and industry?
4. Industry-informed education, curriculum and student projects. Examples include: industry co-designed curricula; industrial involvement in teaching; live industry projects and challenges; capstone and design projects; industrially based student research; use of industry data, facilities or equipment in education; industry professionals contributing to programme development or delivery. Key question: How did industry collaboration improve engineering education and student learning?
5. Skills, employability and talent pipelines. Examples include: developing industry-relevant skills; graduate recruitment partnerships; placements and internships; degree apprenticeships; continuing professional development; upskilling or reskilling the existing workforce; addressing engineering skills shortages; developing new talent pipelines with industry. Key question: How did the collaboration help address current or future engineering skills needs?
6. Responding to major industrial and societal challenges. This category is deliberately broad and should capture collaborations responding to major changes affecting engineering and industry. Examples include: artificial intelligence and digital transformation; defence and security; manufacturing reshoring and supply-chain resilience; climate change and adaptation; decarbonisation and net zero; energy security, energy costs and renewable energy; resource efficiency and circular economy; infrastructure resilience; demographic and workforce changes. Key question: How did university–industry collaboration help address a significant emerging challenge?
7. Impact, regional development and economic growth. Examples include: supporting regional industrial development; creating or retaining high-value jobs; supporting local SMEs; developing new industries or supply chains; regeneration and place-based innovation; university–industry partnerships contributing to regional economic growth; demonstrable research or innovation impact. Key question: How did collaboration create value beyond the individual university and company?
8. New models and approaches to university–industry collaboration. This category is intended for genuinely novel approaches that do not fit comfortably elsewhere. Examples include: new partnership models; innovative approaches to intellectual property or governance; new funding or investment models; unusual approaches to sharing facilities, people or expertise; international university–industry collaborations with UK relevance; collaborations involving multiple sectors; approaches that have significantly changed how an institution works with industry.Key question: What was different and novel about the way the collaboration was organised, and why did it work?
9. Other. Use this category only where the case study does not fit meaningfully into any of the categories above.

Please select ONE primary category. You may also select one or two secondary categories, where appropriate, in the next section.

Submission categories: Secondary: you may select up to two secondary categories.

1. Building and developing industry partnerships. Examples include: establishing a relationship with a new industry partner; moving from an informal relationship to a strategic partnership; developing long-term relationships rather than one-off projects; building trust between academic and industrial partners; creating effective university–industry networks or consortia; developing partnerships with SMEs or organisations that have limited experience of working with universities. Key question: What did you do to establish and develop a productive longer-term relationship?
2. Collaborative research, innovation and R&D. Examples include: collaborative research projects; industry-led or co-created research; contract research and consultancy developing into longer-term collaboration; translational research and technology development; industry participation in research programmes; commercialisation and exploitation of research; interdisciplinary university–industry R&D. Key question: How did the partnership turn academic expertise into research, innovation or value for industry
3. Knowledge exchange and innovation ecosystems. Examples include: knowledge-transfer partnerships; knowledge exchange between academics and industrial practitioners; innovation centres, institutes or hubs; regional innovation ecosystems; industry networks and clusters; shared facilities, laboratories or demonstrators; mechanisms for transferring knowledge into industrial practice. Key question: What mechanisms and structures enabled knowledge and expertise to flow effectively between university and industry?
4. Industry-informed education, curriculum and student projects. Examples include: industry co-designed curricula; industrial involvement in teaching; live industry projects and challenges; capstone and design projects; industrially based student research; use of industry data, facilities or equipment in education; industry professionals contributing to programme development or delivery. Key question: How did industry collaboration improve engineering education and student learning?
5. Skills, employability and talent pipelines. Examples include: developing industry-relevant skills; graduate recruitment partnerships; placements and internships; degree apprenticeships; continuing professional development; upskilling or reskilling the existing workforce; addressing engineering skills shortages; developing new talent pipelines with industry. Key question: How did the collaboration help address current or future engineering skills needs?
6. Responding to major industrial and societal challenges. This category is deliberately broad and should capture collaborations responding to major changes affecting engineering and industry. Examples include: artificial intelligence and digital transformation; defence and security; manufacturing reshoring and supply-chain resilience; climate change and adaptation; decarbonisation and net zero; energy security, energy costs and renewable energy; resource efficiency and circular economy; infrastructure resilience; demographic and workforce changes. Key question: How did university–industry collaboration help address a significant emerging challenge?
7. Impact, regional development and economic growth. Examples include: supporting regional industrial development; creating or retaining high-value jobs; supporting local SMEs; developing new industries or supply chains; regeneration and place-based innovation; university–industry partnerships contributing to regional economic growth; demonstrable research or innovation impact. Key question: How did collaboration create value beyond the individual university and company?
8. New models and approaches to university–industry collaboration. This category is intended for genuinely novel approaches that do not fit comfortably elsewhere. Examples include: new partnership models; innovative approaches to intellectual property or governance; new funding or investment models; unusual approaches to sharing facilities, people or expertise; international university–industry collaborations with UK relevance; collaborations involving multiple sectors; approaches that have significantly changed how an institution works with industry.Key question: What was different and novel about the way the collaboration was organised, and why did it work?
9. Other. Use this category only where the case study does not fit meaningfully into any of the categories above.

You may select UP TO TWO secondary categories where appropriate.

University type *

For example: Research-intensive / regional / specialist / other

Geographical scope *

Local
Regional
UK
International

Duration of collaboration *

Number of academic staff involved *

Number of students involved *

Approximate scale of funding/investment

Optional

Current status *

Ongoing
Completed
Evolved into another collaboration

Summary: Please provide a 100-word summary of the case study suitable for display on the EPC website. *

The summary should answer: What was the collaboration, why was it needed, what made it successful, and what can other academics learn from it? The logic of your summary should follow this logic: The challenge → The partners → How they collaborated → What made it work → What went wrong → Impact → 3 lessons for academics.

Keywords (please suggest a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 30) *

Keywords are the words and phrases associated with your submission that a user might search under when looking for this type of content. This is where you can add more specific engineering disciplines (see previous question), as well as keywords that focus on topic, content, situation, materials, themes, professional situations, problems, solutions, and so on. For examples of keywords, go to https://epc.ac.uk/resources/toolkit, expand the 'Find the right tool' bar, and click the 'Tips' button. This will bring up a list of existing keywords and you can also suggest your own.

Please upload your contribution as a .doc or .docx file. *

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Please add a list of all contributing authors and their affiliations into your document. Please do a final check before uploading.

Please upload any images used within your contribution as .jpg, .jpeg or .png files.

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Is this contribution based on any previous work that you have undertaken, either alone or as part of a team? *

If you answered yes to the above question, how should the previous work / other team members be credited?

Does any of this material belong to your company or institution? *

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Which of these describes your relationship with the EPC? *

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Enterprise Collaboration Toolkit: Submit your case study