41. One Enterprise-to-One School Project to Invigorate Industry-Academia Collaboration
Sun-Yee Hong, Tae-Hwa Jung
Network of industry-academia cooperation is a prerequisite in promoting national development through technological innovation and development of competent workforce suitable for industries. The government has made multilateral efforts to promote cooperation between industry and academia, and such efforts have led to improvements in the institutional bases needed to promote industry-academia cooperation to some extent, with significant quantitative achievements.
However, such steady increases in quantitative outcomes of industry-academia collaboration are not put to practical use in industries.
The main problem behind the lack of cooperation among enterprises and vocational high schools is insufficient participation of those interested parties due to lack of awareness and will, and shortage of intermediary organizations to link the interested parties and carry out arbitration activities. Amid shortage of intermediary bodies to link and coordinate enterprises and vocational high schools, the project on one enterprise-to-one school agreement is highly desirable and meaningful in stimulating industry-academia cooperation.
The main purpose of the one enterprise-to-one school agreement project is to support enterprises and schools to sign an one-to-one agreement as a way of promoting practical and progressive industry-academia collaboration.
This project has laid the stepping stone to practical and substantial industry-academia collaboration, and we expect productive cooperation to take place among more enterprises and vocational high schools.
