This document contains three papers presented at a symposium on partnership research moderated by Richard Torraco at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD). "Partnership Research in HRD: Pulling Rabbits from Hats" (Ronald L. Jacobs) demonstrates that human resource development (HRD) researchers should adopt the partnership research approach (a research approach based on the principles that research problems should emerge from practice) and that each partner should gain something from the study. Laurie J. Bassi's paper "Partnership Research: Challenges and Opportunities" makes the following points regarding partnership research in HRD: research partners' conflicting needs must be carefully balanced against one another; given the difficulties inherent in partnership research, a compelling reason must be identified for doing research in partnership rather than in isolation; and researchers must develop up-front procedures for addressing the difficulties of conducting research in partnership. "University-Industry Partnerships: Meeting the Challenge with a High Tech Partner" (Lynn E. Nimtz, William C. Coscarelli, Daniel Blair) uses the example of the partnership currently existing between Southern Illinois University and Hewlett-Packard to explore the issues involved in university-high-tech industry partnerships. (MN)