Industry partnership and third mission as allies for educational research

The issue of REM is focused on an emerging educational research practice in Italy. We are referring to a very heterogeneous set of applied empirical studies developed in a close collaboration with the industry sector. Social impact, industry and educational research are three categories that seems no longer to appear disjointed, indeed they are tight in a new alliance aimed at developing products and processes that could have a transformative influence on the way we teach and learn. The issue addresses the need to take over the terms of this cooperation, through experiences already carried out and discussions held at the international level. We are still far from the definition of a model of partnership, but the studies discussed here can help us to understand better the reasons for a dialogue.