Roadmap for Implementing Third Mission University

Abstract

There is widespread recognition of the growing importance of universities in a knowledge society and a competitive economy, and of their required role in stimulating growth through University-Industry-Government interaction. As Tadmor (2003, p.22) put it "[universities] can show the way, offer the solutions and produce the hardware to resolve the most crucial problems". While the education and research missions of universities have formalized by the universities, their third mission “Technology Transfer” have been recognized and often accepted, but has not been implemented in formalized structures, systems, skills, values and ways of working.