RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE CONSORTIA : UNIVERSITIES - RESEARCH INSTITUTES - INDUSTRY. THE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF THE INVOLVEMENT OF METALLURGICAL FIELD IN THE CONSORTIA

This article presents some relevant aspects of academia-industry partnership: how academic environment can work closely with industry, and also how industry may efficiently contribute to the improvement of the academic research and development activities. The extremely dynamic and challenging world imposed the emergence of the knowledge based economy and the demand for excellence both of professionals (academic staff graduates, researchers, managers in industrial field, engineers etc..) and of cooperative relations among them, as stakeholders, aiming to create and develop a beneficial consortia. Taking into consideration the opinion of the specialists, that industrialization is based on the development of metallurgical industry, the paper points out that this domain increasingly depends on the process of research and innovation and on the dissemination and application of its results.