Accelerating Research Translation (ART) Workshop #1

Friday, October 30, 2026 • 12:00-2:00 p.m. CT

This session prepares institutions and researchers to build productive industry relationships that advance sponsored research and commercialization opportunities. Participants learn structured approaches for identifying potential partners, aligning incentives, and developing mutually beneficial collaborations. This session directly supports the University of Southern Mississippi's (USM) stated goals around cross-campus collaboration and industry engagement. The session will cover areas related to partner identification, aligning academic research with industry challenges, partnership development strategies, sponsored research agreement fundamentals, relationship building and trust development, negotiation considerations and collaboration structures, and sustaining long-term industry engagement.

Audience: Faculty, TTO staff, research administrators, doctoral and post-doctoral students

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify and analyze potential and existing industry partners of USM and Jackson State University by aligning institutional research strengths with sector-specific challenges to develop mutually beneficial collaboration opportunities
2. Apply structured partnership development strategies to build, negotiate, and sustain productive industry relationships that advance sponsored research and commercialization goals