tailieunhanh - Applying fuzzy delphi and best-worst method for identifying and prioritizing key factors affecting on university-industry collaboration

In this study, the factors affecting the improvement of University-Industry Collaboration are identified and prioritized. In the first step, 20 factors are identified and 12 factors are selected using the Fuzzy Delphi method. | Applying fuzzy delphi and best-worst method for identifying and prioritizing key factors affecting on university-industry collaboration Decision Science Letters 9 2020 107 118 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Decision Science Letters homepage dsl Applying fuzzy delphi and best-worst method for identifying and prioritizing key factors affecting on university-industry collaboration Alireza Mosayebia Shahryar Ghorbanib and Behzad Masoomic a of Decision Making and Policy Making Lecturer at University of Mazandaran Faculty of Economics amp Administrative Science Babolsar Iran bPhD Student in Management and Business Administration Programme Graduate School of Social Sciences Istanbul Gedik University Turkey cPhD student in Operation Management Department of Management Islamic Azad University Firoozkooh Branch Tehran Iran CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history The collaboration between the universities and industries is currently in the focus of attention Received June 15 2019 globally. Governments universities and industries are interested in good and effective Received in revised format collaboration which would be beneficial for all parties. To foster University-Industry June 20 2019 Collaboration and to help transfer the knowledge and technology between these two parties Accepted July 27 2019 Available online academics politicians and companies are paying attention to science and technology policies July 27 2019 more than ever. In this study the factors affecting the improvement of University-Industry Keywords Collaboration are identified and prioritized. In the first step 20 factors are identified and 12 University- Industry collaboration factors are selected using the Fuzzy Delphi method. Then using the BWM method prioritizing Technology the extracted factors is determined for industry sponsorship of the university research. Finally Incubator based on the results the discussion is conducted and six major strategies are presented .