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a local level in Europe and beyond. Te network provides innovation support to companies, and has a mechanism to search for partners in other countries at a range of commercial readiness levels from applied research up to companies looking for distributors. Very oſten R&D collaboration is
thought of as university-to-business, but this is by no means the full story – the business-to-business relationship is an important one. Mark Williamson, managing director of Stemmer Imaging, said that very oſten the most successful collaborations are with the company’s customers: ‘We’ve found that the most
successful relationships with our customers are where we’ve developed a genuine partnership. For example, we might work with a company which has a great product but very limited machine vision experience, and we can collaborate
Very often R&D collaboration is thought of as university-to-business, but … the business- to-business relationship is an important one
with them to develop and integrate the imaging technology.’ Like many companies though,
Stemmer Imaging does also engage with the academic base. Williamson said: ‘We need talented individuals in our business, and universities are an important part of this. For example, we support Masters students and offer industrial placements.’ Williamson’s comments reflect
the fact that companies work with universities in several different ways, from recruitment to R&D, licensing and ongoing relationships between the universities and their alumni. At the research and development
level, it’s important that the parties understand each other’s drivers and motivations. Academics need to undertake
new research and publish, whereas oſten the company partner is looking for a near-term solution and confidentiality is necessary. However, evidence from the UK’s innovation funding body suggests
that there is an overall advantage for projects with academic partners. It seems these different perspectives can be useful though in finding new solutions to problems. Te pace of change is rapid in
tech industries and imaging and machine vision is no exception. Te industry has already
seen many changes, and as new
developments such as artificial intelligence and even quantum imaging have the potential to drive huge change, it’s more important than ever for business to collaborate in order to innovate and succeed. Help is available across Europe for collaboration and business must grasp the opportunity this presents. O
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