 I decided to join this event today to get more of an insight into how things work in industry and also to explore maybe my own career opportunities in industry. I think there are two major obstacles for the collaboration between academia and industry and one thing is the time scales. In academia you are used to things taking decades and you can work on projects for years but in industry everything goes much faster and you have to be much more agile and willing to quit your projects. The other thing is that usually academia and industry they don't want the same thing from the collaboration so you need to find some situation which is good for both parties. At every level we have this open innovation way of working which brings a lot of value for both partners. The department for corporate relations and technology transfer wants to encourage researchers to engage with the industry so it's not about just calling a company and saying we need some money it's about building some relationships and understanding each other. A visit like the one today is interesting for everyone who is curious about what goes on in the real world as we like to say. I think the take home message for the academics is to get their act together and to prepare for meetings with industry to realize all the differences between industry and academia that you cannot stay in your own academic bubble and then come to a place like this and do the thing that you've always been doing you have to do something new and you have to try to fit in more into the industrial way of doing things.