UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS - MEETING THE CHALLENGE WITH A HIGH-TECH PARTNER

Today's knowledge-based, technological society demands much from highe r education and the corporate world-demands that often can be met thro ugh effective university-industry partnerships. This paper will explor e the issues involved in such partnerships and examine a partnership t hat currently exists between Southern Illinois University and the Hewl ett-Packard Company. The paper begins with a historical review of such partnerships and concludes with a description of the particular diffi culties that a college or university can have when dealing with a high -tech partner.