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The course explores university and corporate research and partnerships. It delves into the history of corporate funding of university based research and how corporations differ from other university partners and how corporations view their relationships with universities. It also examines strategies and best practices needed to organize an academic office of corporate relations; develop metrics to track and manage corporate engagement; the role of intellectual property and technology transfer; stages and categories of university-industry engagement; the role of federal government in corporate engagement; the role of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable and related national commissions; and, state and local government in academic-corporate relationships.