IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION. AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

The aim of this paper is to explore how the collaboration between universities and industry can be improved and the role of the university-industry linkage in fostering the development of engineering education in transition economies. The strength of the university-industry collaboration will depend on the closeness, mutual understanding of strengths and weakness, confidence with reference to either parties and on the effectiveness cooperation between them. Using initial quantitative research in the context of collaboration between industry and university, we develop a conceptual model to test the hypotheses. The primary contribution of this study is that believe our study extends the theory and provides new insights into academic collaboration with industry. This study will highlight that different ways through which the collaboration between university and industry is enhancing the employment of university graduates in industry, joint research project for knowledge transfer, consulting work or licensing of university patents