Designing and Validation of the Communication Model Between Industry and Education in the Age of Knowledge (Qualitative)

The main purpose of this research is to design and validate themodel of communication between industry and education in the age ofknowledge.

This research is one of the qualitative researches,which is applied in terms of its basic purpose and descriptive-survey interms of its method. The statistical community of the research includesacademic experts and industrial owners. To determine the samples, atargeted non-random sampling method was used, and 20 people wereconsidered as the sample size using the principle of saturation. The profileof the interviewees included 7 university managers, 8 industrial owners and5 university faculty members. Semi-structured interviews were used in thisresearch. . In order to ensure the validity of the instrument in the qualitativepart of the research and to ensure the accuracy of the findings from theresearcher's point of view, the valuable opinions of professors familiar withthis field and university experts who were experts and informed in this fieldwere used. In the current research, retest reliability and intrasubjectagreement method were used to calculate the reliability of the conductedinterviews. The method of data analysis was theoretical coding derivedfrom the foundational data theorizing method.

The results of the analysis show that among the 141 indicators(items) available, 33 main components could be identified. The identifiedcomponents include communication through legal policy, rotationalcommunication, collaborative research and technology transfer as keyfactors, management factors, infrastructure factors, educational factors andinformation technology governance as influential factors, as well aseducational quality components, organizational innovation as factors.Effects or outcomes were identified.

In addition, mechanisms were identified in the form ofmanagerial factors, technological and behavioral development, platformsin the form of behavioral, environmental and social factors, and barriers inthe form of technological education, technological and educational supportfactors.