Understanding how businesses engage with academia

The Developing Business-Aware Academics project has partnered with CBI Economics to conduct a survey of UK business engagement with academic researchers. The survey seeks to understand how businesses currently engage and where they see potential for working with academic researchers in the future.    

Running until December 2nd 2024, the survey examines the current landscape of industry-academia interaction, including the motivators, barriers and enablers to business engagement with academia. Participants will help improve understanding of how universities and researchers can contribute to business workforce planning and fill skills gaps in certain sectors, through collaboration or career mobility. These responses will then form part of DBAA’s evidence base, which will inform the training and networking provision designed by the project.  

By drawing on the insights and experiences of researchers, researcher developers, and industry professionals, DBAA is embedding evidence-led practice in researcher development. Our provision is designed to give researchers the skills, confidence and freedom to engage beyond academia, and to enable businesses to realise the full potential of research talent.  

To have your say in the extent and scope of business interactions with universities, academics and academic research, fill out the CBI Economics survey before 5pm on Monday 2nd December.