Factors Affecting University-Industry Knowledge Sharing Practices: The Case Of Addis Ababa University College Of Veterinary Medicine
| dc.contributor.advisor | ASSEFA (Phd), TEMTIM | |
| dc.contributor.author | Minwalkulet, Fikru | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-13T13:32:05Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T12:43:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-11-13T13:32:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T12:43:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-06-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Knowledge becomes a valuable resource and asset for organizations today that brings competitive advantage if it is created, acquired, shared and applied properly. Knowledge sharing is a process that may take place across individuals as well as groups, departments and organizations to bring organizational competitiveness. Although knowledge sharing has significant importance for organizational competitiveness, the knowledge sharing process might be very complex due to different factors. Thus, the purpose of this study was to identify how knowledge is shared between college of veterinary medicine and stakeholder industry and to explore factors that affect university-industry knowledge sharing practices taking Addis Ababa University College of Veterinary Medicine as a specific case. The study applied cross sectional mixed research approach. Simple random sampling and purposive sampling was applied to select sample questionnaire survey and interview respondents respectively. As a result, from a total population of 80 academic staff in the college, 66 respondents were selected based on Krejcie and Morgan (1970) sample determination table. Accordingly, 66 survey questionnaires were distributed and 65 questionnaires were appropriately filled and returned. Hence, the analysis of the data was made based on the 65 returned questionnaires by using descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation as well as regression analysis and correlation coefficient. The result of the study revealed that joint publications, training company employees, contract research, joint research and participating in professional membership are the top five KS practices AAUCVM academicians often used to interact with stakeholder industry. Moreover, individual factors (willingness, trust, motivation to share knowledge and awareness of KS as duties); organizational factors (providing promotion for sharing knowledge and existence of knowledge sharing policy); and technological factors (availability of up-to-date ICT infrastructure and updated website for sharing knowledge) were identified as having significant impact on knowledge sharing practices. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/14166 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Knowledge sharing practice, knowledge sharing mechanism, and university-industryKS | en_US |
| dc.title | Factors Affecting University-Industry Knowledge Sharing Practices: The Case Of Addis Ababa University College Of Veterinary Medicine | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |