Original scientific paper

Cooperation between educational institutions and businesses

Zoltan Zavargo ; University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technology, Novi Sad, Serbia
Zdravko Šumić ; University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technology, Novi Sad, Serbia

Abstract

The increasingly global economy forces countries and regions all over the world to maximize their own economic benefit. Economic success will depend greatly on production of information and knowledge readily available to the individuals and enterprises, creating the so called “knowledge based economy”. One of the functions of universities is to provide the national research base. From this base much useful knowledge for society and the economy have derived. They produce expertise, innovative and radical thinking. They are the principal sources of highly trained personnel and they stimulate entrepreneurship and business and can be powerful attractors of investment into a region. University has a key role in educating people but it also has a huge influence on the development of region through interaction with the industry. European universities have enormous potential, 4 000 institutions with over 17 million students and about 1.5 million staff, 435 000 of whom are researchers. In order to make this potential work fully effective, a better cooperation between educational institutions and businesses is need.

Keywords

education; cooperation; businesses

Hrčak ID:

130088

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/130088

Publication date:

1.6.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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