Implementation of quality management in early stages of research and development projects at a university

Abstract

The ultimate objective of university research and development projects is usually to create knowledge, but also to successfully transfer results to industry for subsequent marketing. We hypothesized that the university technology transfer requires efficient measures to improve this important step. Besides good scientific practice, foresighted and industry-specific adapted documentation of research processes in terms of a quality management system might improve the technology transfer. In order to bridge the gap between research institute and cooperating industry, a model project has been accompanied by a project specific amount of quality management. However, such a system had to remain manageable and must not constrain the researchers' creativity. Moreover, topics and research team are strongly interdisciplinary, which entails difficulties regarding communication because of different perspectives and terminology. In parallel to the technical work of the model project, an adaptable quality management system with a quality manual, defined procedures, and forms and documents accompanying the research, development and validation was implemented. After process acquisition and analysis the appropriate amount of management for the model project was identified by a self-developed rating system considering project characteristics like size, innovation, stakeholders, interdisciplinarity, etc. Employees were trained according to their needs. The management was supported and the technical documentation was optimized. Finally, the quality management system has been transferred successfully to further projects.

Research on a New Performance Evaluation Method for University Research Project Management

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Absorción de conocimientos (aprendizaje) en el Valle del Cauca (Cali, Buenaventura y Tuluá) e identificación y eficiencia de canales de transmisión del conocimiento a nivel empresarial y académico

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Innovative Technologies in Higher Education: Social Policy and Development of International Cooperation

“…These factors reduce the scale of scientific research, weaken the ties of higher education institutions and scientific institutions of the education system with industry, the social sphere of the country, industry and academic science. (Fiehe et al, 2014) The authors believe that the proposed list of factors requires systematisation and identification of groups of external and internal factors that affect the innovative activity of The internal factors that favourably affect the development of the innovative climate of the university, include the following: high qualification of the teaching staff; rich traditions of the university in the field of organising the educational process, sports and cultural achievements; the presence of popular areas of training; the developed structure of education after graduation: doctoral studies, postgraduate studies, competition, dissertation councils for the defence of candidate and doctoral dissertations; an extensive network of branches; the presence of the potential of additional professional education; the availability of student practice bases; the provision of assistance in the employment of graduates by the higher educational institution; availability of monographs, textbooks and scientific and methodological developments published on the initiative of university; trends in the growth of scientific and technical developments (Howells et al, 2014). The innovative orientation of the modernisation of higher education is largely determined by various factors of the external sociocultural environment.…”