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How Does Working on University-Business Collaborative Projects Foster the Industrial Doctorates’ Learning Process?

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University and industry research collaboration hugely impacts on academic and industrial doctorates research career and curriculum development. The collaboration brings new opportunities of research areas of interest, real world problems and research challenges, and new skill and abilities in curriculum development. The collaboration also creates innovation and provides regional and national economic benefits. The paper presents the industrial Ph.D. training itinerary framework for creating and testing new business opportunities aligned with the research projects in the space university-business research collaboration. This itinerary provides a training journey based on different workshops along the process, testing the results obtained in their applied research with the real market. The framework encompasses the global learning itinerary with the driving criterion being ideation for industry and society, transforming knowledge into innovations Doctoral students follow the ideation for industry-society training itinerary in order to identify an initial business idea.

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We would like to thank the EIT KIC—Raw Materials for their support in the development of T-DORE project, as well as to all participating agents.

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Ganzarain, J., Markuerkiaga, L., Igartua, J.I. (2019). How Does Working on University-Business Collaborative Projects Foster the Industrial Doctorates’ Learning Process?. In: Ortiz, Á., Andrés Romano, C., Poler, R., García-Sabater, JP. (eds) Engineering Digital Transformation. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96005-0_4

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