The industry connections you have — and the ones you’re missing
Most knowledge exchange teams are stretched — and finding the right industry partners takes time no one has. Knowing which relationships already exist at your institution, and where the real gaps are, is even harder.
In this session, we’ll show you how to cut through that uncertainty. Using your institution’s own research data, Dimensions Industry Partnerships surfaces the companies already engaging with your work — before they ever reach your inbox. You’ll see how to benchmark your industry footprint against KEF cluster peers, and identify white-space opportunities that spreadsheets and memory simply can’t reveal.
What you’ll learn
- How to surface hidden industry connections using your institution’s own data
- Benchmarking your industry footprint against peer universities
- Using data to diversify funding and build a defensible commercialisation pipeline
- Live walk-through of the Dimensions Industry Partnerships platform
Speaker
Shane Jackson
Product Specialist | Digital Science
About Shane
I work with universities, research institutions and publishers in EMEA, using my expertise in Dimensions and Altmetric to demonstrate how Digital Science products can solve research information problems. I re-joined Digital Science in 2025, having previously worked in the technology team. I also have eight year’s experience working as data analyst in the research office at the University of Exeter in the UK. There I developed, demonstrated and managed data products and tools to help the university answer questions about its research, and supported initiatives such as the Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission in 2021.
