Codifying a model of the role of university in the frame of collaborative governance

Achieving development is one of the important goals of planners and policy makers in underdeveloped societies. To this end, the governing systems of many countries around the world try to establish a purposeful relationship between the higher education system and the goals of development management in countries. This research, which has been developed with the aim of developing a role model for the university in the framework of collaborative governance, is exploratory and is applied in terms of the type of qualitative approach and in terms of orientation. The statistical population of the study is the top 13 universities in the country (faculty members with a history of executive positions in the country's governing system) that 16 people have been selected as sample members by purposeful sampling and snowball sampling method until the theoretical saturation is reached. It should be noted that the data collection tool is a semi-structured interview that the four criteria of Goba and Lincoln have been used to check the reliability of the findings. The results show that stimuli (4 factors), contexts (5 factors), participation capacities (4 factors), common motivations (4 factors), common values ​​(5 factors) and outputs and consequences (5 factors) Have been identified as indicators of the university's role in the framework of collaborative governance.