To find students who are both creative and collaborative, the company also runs its annual Brandstorm competition, challenging university teams to work together to devise a marketing plan for one of its products.
He said that he wanted to challenge universities and business to come together to "convert British scientific breakthroughs into British commercial success and jobs".
"Interdisciplinary programs that encourage scientists to straddle traditional disciplinary boundaries or devote significant professional attention to real-world applications also challenges universities' reward systems," says NSF's Karsten.
Governments, industry, and funding organizations challenge universities to become more "entrepreneurial", often in the context of increasing the commercialization outcomes of publicly funded research.
We have challenged universities to defend in public what they do to their students and faculty in private.
While complaints under the Human Rights Act provide similar legal recourse in Canada, and some survivors and activists are beginning to use that legislation to challenge universities, education is under provincial jurisdiction, making these solutions patchwork.
The action of occupying a university is not merely to challenge university managements to come out against cuts, nor is it only to put pressure on the coalition to stop talking misleadingly about "togetherness" when it comes to education reforms.
The results challenge university teachers, especially in faculties of medicine, to evaluate their ability to create a safe environment conducive to learning.
A partnership of UK universities is launching an online project, challenging US universities that have dominated this emerging market.
Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group of large, research-intensive universities, said maintaining high rankings would be "challenging" because universities face "growing cost pressures and fierce competition from better resourced institutions in other countries".
