Beneficiaries
This university-business partnership model has three broad beneficiaries:
- Indra, which:
- Has the opportunity to develop solutions in which the spearhead of international knowledge is accompanied by academics and university research departments.
- Benefits from the university-business technology transfer.
- Attracts talent in the academic world with a view to possible recruitment to the company.
- Encourages Indra professionals to take an interest in research and partnerships with universities.
- Includes Design for All principles in its products, which gives them a competitive advantage.
- Benefits from academic initiatives that improve the training of its professionals.
- Benefits from the talent and capabilities which the university places at its disposal.
- The universities, which:
- Benefit from the promotion of a business culture in the academic world.
- Benefit from academic initiatives targeted at the training of university students, through work experience, grants, prizes, etc.
- Have the opportunity to provide sustainability to research teams funded through the Chairs and working in partnership with the company.
- Promote creativity and a business culture in the academic world, encouraging a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship among students.
- Increase the ratio of technology transfer and the conversion of scientific developments into technological innovations with applications for the market.
- Disabled people, who:
- Benefit from the technological solutions developed by the university-business partnerships.
- Improve their workplace and social inclusion.
- Have the opportunity to participate in the design, development and assessment of the technological solutions developed. This participation is articulated through various consultation mechanisms (direct input, presentations, events, etc.) which encourage the different groups of disabled people to feel personally involved in the projects undertaken.