Bridging the Gap between University and Industry: Efforts Made at Faculty of Engineering – Rabigh - Saudi Arabia

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10.2991/icaicte.2013.90How to use a DOI?

Keywords

University-industry relationship; knowledge base; Research University; technological issues; legislations.

Abstract

For a long time collaboration between Universities and industry has been existed, but the rapid increase of global knowledge has strengthened the demand for strategic relationships that go beyond the conventional funding of research projects. The role of the university’s research should be developed in the coming centuries to play an important role in industrial and in turn economic growth. To make the chemistry work, both sides should overcome the communications and the cultural divide that tends to impair university – industry relationships of all categories and undercut their potential. Faculty of Engineering Rabigh (FER) is strategically located around major industries and facilities like Petro Rabigh, desalination plant, steel fabrication and cement industries. This makes FER a nucleus to solve technological problems for all these industries. A number of efforts have been made at FER to collaborate with these industries by mutual reciprocal visits of university and industry personnel as well as student internships. It is aimed to solve short term and long term technological issues at the industrial units. This will not help the local knowledge base and skills to improve but bring confidence and trust between two partners. It is to be remembered that innovation does not happen in a vacuum: A context – the economy, society and policy – shape how easy or hard it is to innovate. In this context the role of government is also very important to create legislations that make the university - industry relationship as a win-win situation.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Abdullah Al-Shehri
AU  - Mostafa A-b Ebrahim
AU  - Hani Shafeek
AU  - Mohamed Fekry Soliman
AU  - Mohamed Helmy Abdel-Aziz
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - Bridging the Gap between University and Industry: Efforts Made at Faculty of Engineering – Rabigh - Saudi Arabia
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Advanced ICT and Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 431
EP  - 439
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icaicte.2013.90
DO  - 10.2991/icaicte.2013.90
ID  - Al-Shehri2013/08
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