Strategy

• For each industrial partner a Contact group (TKG) is established. It comprises two or three people from the company and two or three people from the university part of ISIS. It is the basis for information dissemination and seed project discussions. The TKG as such is not linked to any particular project, but may contain persons from either side that participate in a joint project.
• While the activities of ISIS certainly may contain regular contract research/development projects (``uppdragsforskning''), the main thrust of ISIS is to develop competence. Graduate education (``forskarutbildning'') is an integral part of ISIS.
• Any ISIS project shall have a well defined industrial interface. This could be as a formal joint industry/university project aiming for a specific goal/product within a given time. It could also be in the form of parallel and integrated activities, without formalizing them as a joint project. Another format is a jointly supervised graduate research project.