Mohamed Ahmed Hamdan Born in November 1934, in Jaffa, Palestine. Hamdan obtained his PhD in Mathematical Statistics (University of Sydney, 1963). He is currently senior advisor, Arab Open University, Kuwait. His previous positions include: Assistant, Associate Professor and Professor of Mathematics, American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Associate Visiting Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Visiting Professor of Mathematics, American University of Cairo; Dean of Student Affairs, Dean of Scientific Research and Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Jordan, Amman; President, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan; Professor of Mathematics, University of Jordan; Minister of Education and Higher Education, Jordan; Secretary General, Higher Council for S&T, Jordan; and Rector, Arab Open University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract:
Industry and Academic Relations: Convergence or Divergence
Some Good Practice Examples
Mohammad A. Hamdan and Yousef Al-Abdallat
To achieve sustainable development, all stakeholders relevant to research technology, business and industrial development and innovation have to combine their individual strengths to an efficient and powerful workforce. Even when the policy-framework is more and more related towards sustainable development, still missing is the coordinated approach to avoid inefficiency and misunderstandings. To provide the basis for business and industrial development, better synergy between industry and academia is needed. Technology transfer support, the implementation of a stable bridge between industry and universities or research institutes is needed to enable absorptive capacities of technology and innovation. Good practice examples from developed countries could help build a medium?term strategy with suitable benchmarks. In this paper, we present two good practice examples implemented in Jordan, which are considered worthwhile success stories. In section 2 of this paper, we present a special approach followed by the Deanship of Academic Research at the University of Jordan. In section 3, we describe another national successful story in Jordan, namely, Faculty-for-Factory program. In section 4, we discuss some possible linkage advantages to participating academic institutes, and some concluding remarks are presented in section 5.