University-Industry Linkage in the Ethiopian Higher Education Sector (Published in The Teacher, Vol 9, No 5, 2014) (original) (raw)

2014, The Teacher, Vol 6, No 12

Over the last two decades, it has been noticed that U-I linkage has brought substantial results in many countries in terms of technology transfer, training, enterprise support and development, consultancy, contract and collaborative research, internship and externship, etc (Cf. Dill 1995; Martin 2000; Plonski 2000; Lambert 2003; D’Este and Patel 2005). This has specially given some countries competitive edge over others that have not given similar consideration to this domain. In light of this consideration the article examines the situation in the Ethiopian higher education sector by taking the experiences of some public universities. (Article published at The Teacher, Vol 6, No 12, 2015)