Valorisation and industry
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Collaboration with companies
FOM is exploiting the emerging idea of 'open innovation' to foster greater cooperation with companies. FOM has an extensive network of experts in a wide range of physics subjects. Those experts already collaborate with companies or would like to do so. Likewise FOM maintains close contacts with companies who involve FOM in their research for a longer period of time.
Various types of collaboration have already been developed.
Examples are:
Various types of collaboration have already been developed.
Examples are:
- workshops in which academics think with researchers from industry about complex scientific or technological problems faced by companies;
- contract research;
- a FOM research group working in an industrial laboratory;
- joint research, for example in the form of a FOM Industrial Partnership Programme (IPP), of which a dozen are active.
