The basic requirements of interaction of university-industry: a knowledge management approach

Abstract

The main goal of this study was to examine the basic requirements of interaction of University-Industry with knowledge management (KM) in the Engineering School of Ferdowsi University (ESFUM). To achieve this goal, a case study research method is used. All members of faculties in the engineering school are selected as target population. According to the research results, the basic requirements of interaction U-I was categorized in nine main categories such as perceived usefulness, perceived necessity, knowledge goal setting, knowledge coherence, valuation of knowledge, action learning, knowledge relevance, shared language and taking risk. Also, the quantitative results showed that perceived usefulness and perceived necessity of knowledge, shared language, action learning, valuation of knowledge, taking risk, knowledge coherence, knowledge relevance and knowledge goal setting got the highest rate in the population studie