"This book is designed to assist both academic and corporate institutions in creating mutually beneficial partnerships and collaborations. Several excellent professional organizations exist to develop communities and share knowledge such as UIDP, NACRO, NACE, UPCEAA, AUTUMN, UIIN, ASEE CIPD and more. In our experience, the most successful collaborations between industry and academia involve the topics across the spectrum. And this book is designed to provide guidance on navigating, structuring and delivering truly win-win programs from research, faculty connections and new technologies, to student connections, professional development, capstones, course connections, technology transfer, and start-ups - and everything in between."-- Provided by publisher.