Close collaboration with industries is key to university success. There is a
trend of bringing industry to university campus to enhance student employability and
technology transfer. The chapter cites many examples including: the Boeing Advanced
Research Center on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus, IBM’s Research
and Development Laboratory at the Melbourne campus, Microsoft’s global Station Q
quantum at the University of Sydney, and Siemens’ Industry 4.0 “Factory of the
Future” Swinburne’s Melbourne campus.
Keywords: Brain Belts, Open Innovation, Rust Belts.
