A Research on the Problems Encountered in the Collaboration between University and Industry

AbstractIndustry sector needs to be in collaboration with university in order to reach the information that will contribute its performance. The university also has some expectations from such kind of collaboration such as increasing the capacity, conducting R&D, institutionalizing, making firms ready in terms of intellectual capital and providing financial benefit as well as processing data and finding an application area. Collaboration of university and industry both leads the firms to provide a competitive advantage by creating synergy and also causes set of problems. The aim of this research is to investigate the level at which the university and industry collaboration exists in Konya province, to ascertain the frequency of collaboration subjects and the problems encountered during this collaboration. According to our research that we did on 142 firms in Konya, by not being on enough level of collaborating degree, there is a positive directed linear relationship between the frequency degree collaborating with the university and the abundance of the number of employees in the institution which is the necessity of being institutional. Because of this, the collaboration in the institutional firms is often inclined to come true. Furthermore, it was set higher that the problems of the administrators whose frequency degree of collaboration with the university is high in comparison with the people whose frequency degree of collaboration is low