Abstract:

The cooperation between university and industry has begun nascent with the British industry revolution which was the starting point of modern industry. During the 1975-1985 period, the importance of university-industry research cooperation which has become widespread gradually since 1970s has increased even more at present. The necessity of new scientific knowledge enhances the relationship between industry and academic units. This is specially the case as a considerable distribution of scientific and technical knowledge within Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is needed. In this study, first, the cooper2ation between university-industry in the world will be tackled, and then the development of university-industry cooperation in Turkey will be analysed. In this framework, the contribution of the European Union integration process to this cooperation will be examined and the university-industry cooperation in Trakya Region will be evaluated

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