An investigation of the challenges of industry-university cooperation: A case of Tehran’s Power Distribution Company

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Master of Technology Management, Research and Development Orientation, great Tehran electricity distribution company,Iran.

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Although Industry-university cooperation has a long history, it has not a desirable status, in particular in under development and developing countries. In the literature, there are several studies focused on investigating the challenges of industry-university cooperation but there is a scant research to scrutinize the interrelationships among the challenges and “how to” solutions for overcoming them. Therefore, this paper has two contributions to fill in the literature gaps. First, it summarizes various variables and parameters influencing the industry-university cooperation in a conceptual framework. Second, this study proposes an integrative framework by using fuzzy Delphi method (FDM) anf interpretive structural modeling (ISM). In order to validate the proposed frameworks, they was employed in a real case study of Tehran’s Power Distribution Company. Findings show that the root challenge of the university-industry cooperation in power industry is the beurucratic processes of university-related projects in the company and it leads to other challenges such as low motivation of researchers to cooperation with industry. According to the experts of this study, the proposed framework is significantly useful in investigating the cause and effect, and structural hierarchical

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  • Receive Date: 21 January 2019
  • Revise Date: 15 May 2019
  • Accept Date: 18 May 2019

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