Abstract:

The presentation will focus on a study of success factors in industry-academia collaboration. The study was conducted based on identification of 14 potential key factors for successful collaboration. Different stakeholders were asked to prioritize the factors. The stakeholders include people from industry, doctoral students and researchers. The presentation will present the key factors to have in place to be successful in industry-academia collaboration.
Furthermore, a discussion of the differences and similarities between the views of the different stakeholders will be presented.

Short Bio:

Claes Wohlin is Professor of Software Engineering and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has served as Dean of Undergraduate Education at Blekinge Institute of Technology. Prior to joining BTH in 2000 he held professorships at Lund and Linköping Universities. He is currently Visiting Professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg. His research interests include empirical methods in software engineering, software metrics, software quality, requirements engineering and systematic improvement in software engineering. Claes Wohlin is the principal author of the book Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000). He has published over 150 articles internationally. Since 2001 Professor Wohlin has been co-editor-in-chief of the journal of Information and Software Technology, published by Elsevier. From January 1, 2008 he will be editor-in-chief of the aforementioned journal. Furthermore. he is on three other editorial boards: Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal, Software Quality Journal and Requirements Engineering Journal. Claes Wohlin was the recipient of Telenor´s Nordic Research Prize in 2004 for his achievements in software engineering and improvement of reliability for telecommunication systems.

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