COOPERATION BETWEEN ENTERPRISES AND UNIVERSITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE COMPETENCIES OF STUDENTS

Abstract

Universities play a significant role in the innovative development of the economy and ensuring the country’s technological sovereignty. Thus, they must create a sustainable demand for mutually beneficial cooperation with enterprises and organizations. Nowadays, researchers have only partially explored the potential for industrial collaboration to develop the innovative competencies of faculty and students. In this paper the researchers identify effective conditions for developing innovative competencies of educators and students through partnerships between industrial enterprises and universities. Mutually beneficial collaboration between enterprises and universities should include encouraging the involvement of practicing faculty from industry, eliminating barriers to university-industrial collaboration, developing a technology brokerage system for the commercialization of researches, and emphasizing the strategic importance of the enterprise for the university. The university should establish an interdisciplinary team that works with enterprises to develop a list of relevant scientific topics for the implementation of practical cases in disciplines, analyzes work programs and FOS, and prepares students for grant applications. The result of such a transformation of the educational process will be a developed and solved bank of real-world engineering problems for the educational process of the university. The solved industrial problems and materials will serve as the basis for student patent applications, as well as grants forprograms UMNIK and Student Startup among others. The collaboration between the company and the university will enable the transfer of technical solutions developed by university scientists to the real economy. This collaboration will also provide students with a methodology for innovative approaches developed by faculty.