ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests in planning to buy knowledge-based services from universities. The knowledge-buying client organization must undertake all the normal procurement-type due diligence. The book refers to universities and other institutes of higher education simply as 'universities'. In the UK, before publication of the Cooper Report in 1989 – a report which has been influential in other countries with large tertiary education sectors – universities looked primarily for marginal recovery of overheads. Knowledge-buying client organizations may wish to link with universities in other ways. A Research Fellowship is a prestigious university appointment, normally at postdoctoral level. Appointments are usually for three years but may be extended. The payment, or not, of royalties has become a battleground between universities and their industrial/commercial partners in the UK.
