Industry Partnership Quotes

We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.

There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.

I would say that if there is one thing we could have done better in the last 10 years under my watch, is when we launched what we called 'the new car.' It is now called the Gen-5. We just didn't get the collaboration we needed to get from the industry, the owners, the drivers, the engineers and car manufacturers.

We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.

A lot of scientists are hesitant to get involved with industry. It's seen as, you know, getting in bed with the devil, actually. But I found that doing this has been really the only way and one of the best ways I know to take a finding from the bench side to people.

I want to work with Farhan Akhtar.

I strongly believe in the apprenticeship model because we see in a lot of countries the local education system is not providing talent that businesses need. So it is important that there is an alignment between what the companies need and the education system, so the education system can build the right programmes.

The relationship between the HBCUs and the auto makers is historically really important.

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.