The document discusses the essential collaboration between academia, the ICT industry, and local governance to foster a knowledge-based economy and enhance capacity building. It emphasizes the importance of skilled professionals in solving local issues, attracting multinational companies, and preventing brain drain. Additionally, it outlines various partnership strategies and examples from successful models like Kista Science City in Sweden and initiatives in Macedonia.

1. INEVITABLE SYNERGY
Cooperation between Academia, ICT
Industry & Local governance
Oliver L. Iliev
Faculty of Information & Communication technologies
FON University

2. Knowledge-based economy and
capacity building need:
 Knowledge-based economies success depends
entirely on people capabilities
 Capacity building generates better professionals
 Better professionals will identify and solve local
problems
 A credentialed workforce attracts multinational
companies
 Opportunities at home eliminates ‘Brain Drain’

3. The Knowledge Process of the Future
New Knowledge
New Talent
Knowledge Knowledge
Generation Transfer
Academia
•Joint Research •Faculty
•Customer Solutions •New Talent
•New knowledge New Knowledge Competence & •Curriculum
•Knowledge Application •Stakeholder Needs
•Best Practices
To Satisfy Society Ability to Learn •Talent Specification
•Customer Needs •Industrial Teacher
•Customer Feedback
Industry
Knowledge Knowledge
Generation Transfer
•Integrated Enterprises
•Integrated Product/Process Dev
•Learning Organizations
•Enterprise-Wide Supply Chains

4. Types of knowledge work
Groups Integration Collaboration
• Systematic work • Improvisational work
Level of interdependence
• Methodologies and • Deep expertise across
standards functions
• Integration across • Fluid deployment of
functional boundaries flexible teams
Transaction Expert
• Routine work • Judgment-oriented work
• Rules and procedures • Individual expertise and
• Low-discretion experience
workforce or information • Star performance
Individuals
Routine Judgment
Complexity of work

5. The Partnership Continuum
Levels of Strategic Partner
Engagement
•Executive
Activities Sponsorship
•Joint Partnership
•State Education
Sponsorship
Lobbying
•University Initiative
•
Sponsorship
•
Support •Undergraduate Research
Program Support
Business
•Student Consultant
•Graduate Fellowships
•Hardware Grants
Involvement •Collaborative Research
KEY
•Curriculum Developm. Program Report
Awareness •Industry Affiliates/ Support & Fundraising 1•Recruiting
Advisory Program •Outreach Programs
•Career Fairs •Workshops/Seminars 2•Education Sales
•Research Grants •Support for Proposals for
•Interviews •Support Contract Education 3•UR Account Managers
• 2 •Internship/Co-op 4•UR Programs
•Student Organizations
•Software Grants Sponsorships • 5•UR Research
•Philanthropic Support 6•Other (Philanthropy,
Alumni, Executive)
•Guest
Speaking/Lectures
Phase One Phase Two Phase Three Phase Four Phase Five
Traditional Engagement Holistic Engagement

6. China experience
Beijing University
- University does all R&D
- Companies perform manufacturing
marketing and sales
- Professors can hold executive positions in
the companies
- Students move easily between university
campus and company offices

7. Kista Science City -Sweden
The largest ICT-cluster in Europe, and one
of the top 5 ICT-clusters in the world.
A higher density of companies, employees
and highly qualified researchers than any
other ICT-cluster in the world.
A real city. All municipal functions and
service available.
Centrally located in Stockholm – the
Capital of Scandinavia.

8. Kista Science City -Sweden
 Mobile communication
 Broadband systems
 Wireless communication
 Cleantech
 Medtech
 Nanotechnology
ICT companies: 1082
ICT employees: 23 768
companies: 8 897
employees: 66 990

9. Our experience
And in Macedonia can Campaign
Scholarship to the best 100 high school students in cooperation with
50 biggest companies in Macedonia
3 year project with more than 3000 candidates
Promotion of best students through Career Center

10. Our experience
Factory of Knowledge Campaign
Interdisciplinary approach including complete implementation of new
products for real companies.
Team consist of students from the faculties of Economics, ICT, Design &
Multimedia and Business languages
 Market research
 Business Plan
 Design of products
 Multimedia Marketing material production
 IT Support
 International promotion of the product

11. Thank you !