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Abstract : It is recognized that the importance of linkage of higher education institutions with various
industries for a given country sustainable development is essential. However, in one or another way the
linkage between universities and industries seems to be very weak particularly in developing countries. In
relation to this few studies have been conducted which were mainly focused on European and middle east
countries and entrepreneur universities Hence to fill this gap, this study was conducted with the aim of
examining the factors that determine the University-Industry linkage knowledge and Technology Transfer
effectiveness in the case of two selected Universities (Mizan Tepi and Wollega Universities). Moreover, a
mixed method approach (both descriptive and explanatory) was used to collect and analyze data for this
study. For the sake of achieving this objective, primary data was collected through structured
questionnaire from a sample of 235 academicians that were selected using stratified sampling techniques
followed by random sampling for each strata selected. Moreover, informant interview was conducted with
11 industries concerned bodies that are selected using convenience sampling technique. While descriptive
narrations through concurrent triangulation strategy were applied to analyze the data collected from
document analysis and interview, data collected using questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive
statistics and econometric model (binary logistic regression). The study conclude that the status of
university-industry linkage knowledge and technology transfer is at a growing/ infant stage in selected
universities while it has long distance to go forward, as can be seen from senior and experienced local and
international universities point of view. The result of the study indicates that the common types of
university-industry interactions were limited to student internship program, consultancies (applicable for
WU only) and training programmes. The result revealed also that lack of research funding, lack of
laboratory facilities, Lack of enough encouragement for researchers to undertake more applicable
research , weak capacity of industries to absorb and apply graduate research results ,Lack of mutual trust
between university and industry, Insufficient publicity, weak exchange of researchers between industry
and university, Weak dissemination of research out puts and weak implementation of policy frame that
foster the link with academic research and industry were found significant factors in determining
University-Industry Linkage knowledge and technology transfer effectiveness .
Keyword university-industry linkages; knowledge and technology transfer; effectiveness,
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