A preliminary examination of stimulating and building university-industry collaborative works at a public university
Vitalization of University and industry collaboration (UIC) is at the forefront of higher education policy making at institutional and national levels. It benefits both the industries and higher institutions with the sharing of expertise and knowhow. Industry players are investing in innovation, res...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6200/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6200/1/032_55.pdf |
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| Summary: | Vitalization of University and industry
collaboration (UIC) is at the forefront of higher
education policy making at institutional and national
levels. It benefits both the industries and higher
institutions with the sharing of expertise and knowhow.
Industry players are investing in innovation, research
and development to stay ahead of global competition. It
is with this lead of future potentials and opportunities
that this study was conducted on university and
industry collaboration between Universiti Tun Hussein
Onn Malaysia (UTHM) an anchor institution located in
Batu Pahat with the industries. The respondents are the
Deans, Deputy Deans and Head of Departments.
Sources of external funding, adequacy of laboratory
equipment, types of services offer to the industry,
nature of UIC interaction and coordination were
reported. Discussion and suggestion of approaches to
UIC from the findings reported in this paper were also
drawn from previous works and the authors’ personal
knowledge and experiences for stimulating and building
collaboration works. |
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