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For years, industry‑supported research held a fairly modest place at Princeton but University-industry relationships have evolved steadily over the past decade with a clear upward trajectory. This year, we are on track to achieve our best numbers ever. More faculty engaged, more research projects started, more societal problems to solve!
An increasing number of researchers are choosing to include industry collaborators in their work. For many of my fellow faculty members, these partnerships are not an exception but rather an extension of academic inquiry. Researchers are working with industry not only to diversify funding but also to sharpen research questions, engage with applied challenges, and move ideas and discoveries more quickly into practice.
This shift reflects sustained thoughtful investment by Princeton’s leadership in the people, policies, and infrastructure needed to support productive and principled engagement with industry, including the creation of the Office of Innovation.
The combined efforts of the Strategic Partnerships and Engagement (SPE) team and the Office of Research and Project Administration (ORPA) introduced new workshops, expanded faculty consultations, improved dissemination of funding opportunities, created guidelines and corporate affiliate programs, and helped to streamline the agreement processes. Faculty should be seeing clearer pathways and increased opportunities to build meaningful collaborations with industry.
You can learn more about these pathways and our other initiatives on our website and at the Princeton Innovation Conference at Reunions on May 22. Please join us!
Best wishes,
Craig B. Arnold
Vice Dean for Innovation and University Innovation Officer, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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