A core element of the Industrial PhD program lies in the cooperation with corporate partners. The program offers concrete, measurable added value in the areas of Talent Acquisition, Employee Retention, and Thought Leadership, strengthens innovation, and makes personnel costs more flexible.

Specifically, the benefits for companies can be mapped as follows:

• Talent Acquisition: Cost-free acquisition of outstanding talent through the network of participating university partners. Matching with relevant company positions.

• Thought Leadership: Building thought leadership through state-of-the-art research, practical publications, studies, and personal networks.

• Employee Retention: Retention of top performers through integration into innovation projects and connection to a doctoral project.

• Promotion of Innovation Power: Transfer of research results into own products and services.

• Personnel Costs: Reduction of fixed personnel costs and flexibilization of human resources by linking personnel services to a concrete research project.

We would be happy to discuss the extent of these added values using a specific company example. Please contact us.