| Name of activity/title | Smart Thursday- series of seminars/webinars bringing together enterprises and scientist for R&D collaboration |
| Domain/action | Domain 2: Strengthening partnerships Actions: – New collaborations – Exchange of good practices |
| Goal of activity/short summary | Seminars/webinars organized by Estonian R&D network Adapter that includes all universities and other R&D organizations with the aim to facilitate access to R&D services. Smart Thursday seminar combines presentations from enterprises and industry on their product development, presentations from the university side and support structures on financing options. |
| Type of stakeholders involved | Enterprises, universities, R&D institution, research support organizations. |
| Description how conducted | Smart Thursday seminars/webinars are planned and organized by the different parties throughout the year and organization, information dissemination on the event etc. is supported by the R&D network Adapter. |
| Resources required (if relevant) | Facilities for a physical event or a virtual seminar. |
| Lessons learned/success factors | Successful implementation requires active communication with industry and universities to raise interests, information dissemination through variety of networks on the event taking place. |
| Time period (if relevant) | Since 2016 |
| Link (if relevant) | |
| Partner who submitted the practice | Estonian University of Life Sciences |
| Key words | Product development, R&D services, innovation networks, industry partnerships. |
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