From Theory to Practice: Experiences of Industry-Academia Collaboration from a Practitioner

Abstract

This is an experience report on industry-academia cooperation. It goes into challenges faced by industry to work with academia and to adopt academic research results. There are four types of challenges described: • Relevance • Practicality • Agility • Accessibility Each challenge is described from the practitioner point of view. Academic research and research result format is compared to popular non-academic knowledge sources such as industry conferences and blogs. The strength and weaknesses of academic research compared to these alternatives is discussed. Finally, experiences from different solutions that have been tried to bridge this gap are described as well as possible future solutions.