The role of universities: From ICT research to successful product innovation: A benchmark of univers

 

Pap, Laszlo

Global change of the role of the traditional universities
- New effects in the development of the traditional universities:
- Increasing number of students
- Diversification of the content of the curricula
- Life-long education
- Competition of the universities
- New information technologies
- New quality measures
- New cooperation methods with the industry
- Fast changes in the content of the curricula

New directions in the development of the universities
Recommendation of the OECD
Some European examples
- New functions in the life of European universities:
- Closer contact with the industrial parks
- New contacts with the small and medium size companies
- Continuous education
- Tailored education programs
- Virtual university
- Research-based small enterprises
- Incubation programs
- New corporation structure:
- Group of intellectual resources
- Group of technology transfer
- Group of investment
- Group of marketing
- Group of technological implementation

Actual situation at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Traditional functions
- New functions

New tasks and goals of the BUTE
General problems at the BUTE
Positive examples at the BUTE
- Common laboratories with the industry
- Research and developing activity in cooperation with:
- The telecommunication developing companies and service providers
- IT developing and service provider companies
- Software developing companies
- Small and medium size enterprises

The importance of utilization of the R&D results
New impacts on the University
The characteristics of the R&D in recent years
New requirements and new approach
Different levels of the innovation chain
Tasks of the innovation management
Activities of the innovation organization
Structure of the innovation organization
Financing of the innovation
Indicators of the results
The Mobile Innovation Center as a new example of the "wind of change"