• Presentazione, Ute Lindner
• Foreword
• State, Higher Education, and Industry: The Players and Their Roles, Ute Lindner
* Introduction
* Technology Transfer: A Timely Issue
* The Adjustment of Educational and Training Institutions to the Industrial Era: The Dialectic Between the State and the Economy
* The Present Form of the German System of Higher Education and its Links with the World of Production

• Interaction Between Chemical Industry and University: Education, Research and Research Training, Ursula Hofacker
* Introduction
* Industrial and Scientific Organizations
* The "Fonds der Chemischen Industrie"
* "Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker" (GDCH)

• University Relations and Personnel Policy: The Experience of Basf AG, Hermann Wesslau
* Introduction
* The Company
* The University Graduates
* In-Service Training

• Higher Qualification by University-Based Research and Development, Gisbert Lechner
* The Structure of Mechanical Engineering Industry
* Education of Mechanical Engineers in the Federal Republic of Germany
* University-Based Research
* The "Institut fur Maschinenelemente" (IMA)




* "Verband Deutscher Maschinen-und Anlagenbau" (VDMA) and
"Forschungskuratorium Maschinenban" (FKM) as an Example of Successful Know how Transfer
* The Cooperation Between University and Industry Contains Advantages for Both

• Personnel Policy and Relations with Higher Education: The Case of Mannesmann Demag A.G., Winfried Muders
* Introduction
* The Mannesmann Group of Companies
* Mannesmann Demag
* The Management Structure
* The Qualitative and Quantitative Demands with Regard to Graduate Employees
* Personnel Management at Mannesmann Demag
* Support by the "Association of German Plant and Heavy Machinery Manufacturers"

Contributors: Ursula Hofacher, Gisbert Lechner, Ursula Lindner, Winfried Muders, Hermann Wesslau

Serie: Isvet-Istituto per gli Studi sullo Sviluppo Economico e il Progesso Tecnico - Documenti

Subjects: Labour Economics - Sociology of Education