Towards a Framework for Educational University-Industry Cooperation: Industry Perspective

Information systems discipline is a quickly developing field of knowledge and to cope with these changes universities have to constantly adjust their curriculum according to industry needs. Therefore universities can highly profit from the cooperation with enterprise partners. On the other hand, enterprises are also interested in closer contact with academia where they can find innovative and commercializable ideas and hire recent college graduates. However, studies still show the discrepancy in needed skill perception between industry and education. Literature on the topic also reports about a number of existing barriers towards establishing successful university-industry cooperation. In this paper, we try to address these problems by proposing a framework for establishing and managing the long-term educational universityindustry cooperation. The framework was constructed based on the results of a case study of an existing cooperation between an IT service company and a regional university. The framework incorporates the industry perspective on the cooperation process.