Measuring successful collaboration project between university and industry in the development research stages

Abstract

The collaboration between the university and the industry is beneficial to both parties. However, it is difficult to develop a successful collaboration due to the difference in research and organisation background from both sides. It is subjective to define the success of the collaboration, which can be based on the collaboration partner’s objectives. Recently, some studies discuss the indicators to determine the success of a project, but there were limited studies that adapted this factor to measure the success of a research project. Thus, this study aims to measure the success of a collaboration project during the development research stages. The indicators of this study were process and outcome criteria to measure the success of a project. The respondents consist of 99 researchers who were involved in the project funded by a government grant scheme. In addition, 8 leaders were interviewed to measure the project’s success. The results show that there was a significant difference between both partners on the process-related criteria. In conclusion, most of the projects were completed and each researcher has their own definition of success.