"In Switzerland, there is no connection between university and hockey like there is in the United States," she said.
Being located on the university campus promoted the connection between university research and the companies to clearly take over as the main objective of the centre.
Participants focused on four priority areas: offering wider access, catering to older students, creating flexible learning opportunities, and strengthening the connections between universities and the regions they occupy.
A lack of venture capital, for example, is a much bigger problem than a lack of connections between universities and industry, he says.
In my naiveté I had expected to find strong connections between university-based researchers and practitioners, who are working with athletes on a daily basis.
This provides a connection between industry, universities and government, and is believed to be used mainly to pass information rather than entertainment or commerce.
It's understandable why the architects made the connection between the university and airplane parts: the Boeing Company was the cornerstone of Seattle's pre-Microsoft economy.
There is a particular connection between that university and Malaya, and that has been built up – it's just lovely to see things like that.
In reality, there is no proven connection between spending on universities and prosperity, nor can there be.
He told the R.O.T.C. students that he was sorry their numbers were so few and that he hoped that by the time they returned for their 50th reunion, "the current issues about military matters at Harvard will have been resolved and there will be a closer connection between the great university and those in uniform".
Last spring, a historian at Princeton began an undergraduate research seminar on the little-explored connections between that university and slavery.
