Questions tagged [consulting]

Providing professional advice or expertise to outside clients for a fee

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Is there an easy/good way for professors to connect with corporate consulting projects?

I'm not an academic (sorry!), but at various points over my career I have been interested in working with professors on a variety of projects. I never found an easy way to find a professor who might be a good fit (e.g. is in the right field and…
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How to best start offering consulting services as a Ph.D. student?

I'm wondering how to best start offering consulting services as a Ph.D. student? In particular, how to think about stating a consulting business while in graduate school. A potential partner and I have skills that fill a market need. Both of us are…
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Would/could PIs hire a consulting company to do partial work that's not in his/her field

I understand that it is usually not difficult for PI to find another professor in the same campus or city for collaboration on a multi-field project (e.g. computational chemistry). However, when the demand of long term collaboration is not huge,…
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