الشراكة البحثية بين بعض الجامعات الأجنبية و قطاع الأعمال و إمكانية الإفادة منها في مصر -جامعة المنيا نموذجا- دراسة مقارنة

الملخص EN

The current research aims to identify the importance of research partnership between universities and the business sector; its objectives, applications, areas, and obstacles as well as to clarify the most important mechanisms, applications and domains of effective research partnerships in Oxford University in the United Kingdom, California University in USA and Oulu University in Finland, so as to identify the possibility of benefiting from them when activating research partnerships in Egyptian Universities.

Moreover, the research sheds the light on the current reality of research partnership at Minia University as one of the regional universities in ARE in order to identify the shortcomings and challenges facing the university and preventing their partnership with the business sector to present some proposed procedures for activating the research partnership in Egyptian Universities.

The research utilized the comparative research approach in its steps as follows: descriptive, analytical, explanatory, and predictive dimension.

Results reached from the comparative analysis revealed the similarities and differences between research fields in the three comparison universities, while the results drawn from analyzing the current reality of research partnership in Minia University clarified the weakness of the application of research partnership between Minia University and the business sector for several reasons including the ence of an approved university research plan, lack of applied research that addresses society problems, lack of national and international research projects database, the weak link between society institutions in fields of agriculture, industry, health, environment, and education and the lack of investment institutions' confidence in the ability of universities research to address their problems.

In the light of these results, the research reached some proposed procedures for activating the research partnership between Egyptian universities and the business sector.