University-Industry Linkage in Ethiopia (original) (raw)
This report documents the results of a research aimed to explore the current university industry interaction works in Ethiopian universities, identify the main challenges in the process of establishing good interaction and propose ways for promoting collaboration works between industries and the whole academia in general and universities in particular. The study presents the university perspective of university-industry interactions with emphasis on types of interactions, barriers to successful interactions and promotional measures to improve interactions. The study shows that university-industry linkage is at a growing stage in Ethiopian universities while it has long distance to go forward, as can be seen from international experience. The common types of university-industry interactions were limited to what can be regarded as conventional types as the predominant types of university interactions with industry consisted of student internship program, consultancies and training programmes. Lack of laboratory facilities, inadequate infrastructures (like communication, transport, journals, books, etc), time constraint due to heavy teaching load and lack of strong industry linkage offices are identified by the academics as the main barriers for collaboration with industries. Moreover, improving laboratory facilities, conducting workshops for industry staff, encouraging regular industry visits by academics and setting up strong and decentralized industry linkage offices are identified by the academics as the main measures to promote collaboration with industries.
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