Evaluation criteria for education institutions-industry collaboration: territories of advanced development (TAD) environment

Abstract

Introduction. Collaboration between professional and higher education institutions and industrial enterprises, located within the city, is of high priority in the territories of advanced development (TAD).Materials and Methods. The paper presents the analysis of Russian and foreign research works aimed at studying the important issues of collaboration between state, professional and higher education institutions and industrial enterprises in educating specialists for industrial enterprises. The main focus is made on enterprises which are the residents of the territories of advanced development and the socio-economic conditions of establishing collaboration. The authors applied scholarly literature study methods, as well as questionnaire, analysis, and generalization and systematization of obtained data approach. Results. The authors have identified and described the main stakeholders of the collaboration, and derived criteria to evaluate the outcomes of education institutions and industrial enterprises collaboration and the efficiency level in training qualified personnel for TAD.Discussion and Conclusions. Future investigation in regard of finding methods and techniques to assess education institutions and industrial enterprises collaboration efficiency is required. Authors also aim at finding efficient collaboration factors which are more relevant to the conditions of territories of advanced development and focus specifically on medium and small-sized enterprises and education institutions of those territories. All the research findings might be used as structural elements of an ontological model of a digital monitoring support system at planning, managing and controlling the process of training specialists for industrial enterprises of TAD.