El-Watan

Promoting Democracy in Algeria

Professional Education

It requires a new professional profile committed to this sector, to provide the necessary knowledge to the national stage and international demand. Authorities universities and companies themselves can not continue to waste its human capital, social, it takes more approach and consider the success of university-industry relationship is to allow that it is necessary to recognize, in this sense, therefore, need to create more spaces where both university and company capitalize on their knowledge and to learn and talk together. ” To the extent that both sectors evaluate, recognize the importance of this linkage, it minimizes the problems, develop programs, actions which will encourage and energize their participation as it should be for development of the country. The National Universities should recap their roles that this requires, to assess their commitment, participation, social responsibility, commit more to the sectors offering highly trained professionals, real agents of change. It provides the university community a common space for knowledge exchange and cooperation through training, culture, research and collaboration with the company, thereby contributing to sustainable development of society.

Of course the tie must be analyzed according to the requirements of each of the actors according to their size, needs, requirements and then determine how to how to work together for achievements that foster it. Therefore not surprising that studies on the subject indicate that the greater or lesser ease with which companies to cooperate with universities depends on the following characteristics: Activity Sector Technical training of human resources and training for its managers.

Attitude towards innovation (type of organization, training policy, quality policy, technological renewal policy, business strategy in the medium and long term, within their markets, etc.) Taking into account these factors, companies can be classified into four groups, as their ability or willingness to collaborate with universities concerned: SMEs high-tech sectors Companies large high-tech sectors Large companies mature sectors SMEs mature or traditional sectors is definitely true when it appears that towards the achievement of this relationship should be considered that the challenges to achieve a good relationship is to achieve confidence building links and working together, and also that there is a major challenge for companies incorporated, permanently and in its axis, as a strategic variable, research, development and innovation. Research is one way to achieve and maintain leadership positions in the international arena and the competition is at this level.

Note also the comments that others have expressed, which is an undeniable reality that domestic firms have little ability to do research, so a strategic alliance with universities is an increasingly evident need. Large international companies are competing to produce knowledge, technology and patents, which gives them enormous advantages. We believe, change the role of participation, linking universities and the business sector that benefit the country, more at a time where this is tending more to the import of products, their manufacture, which makes a transformation paradigms of both the university and the business sector, take into account the comment that: “The ideal is that universities and businesses recognize the power they can gain by working together, instead of isolated.” It is necessary to finally, as noted by Luis Alfonso Bermudez, who once and for all, universities collaborate in the training of highly qualified human resources in the production of knowledge, while companies need to transform such knowledge into products and consequently, innovation.