Evaluating the Policy of the Ministry of Science in Creating Compulsory Sabbatical to Relation with Industry based on an Institutional Perspective

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Semnan, Semnan, Iran

3 Ph.D. Student in Educational Management, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Bu-Ali Sina, Hamedan, Iran

Abstract

Objectives: The relationship between university and industry and consequently their effects on innovation processes have long been analyzed in various scientific communities. The importance of this connection has caused some of the documents of the Islamic Republic of Iran to refer to it. Accordingly, one of the most important steps in the recent policy of the Ministry of Science of Iran doing the compulsory sabbatical is related to the industry for newly recruited faculty members in higher education organizations and research institutes. Thus, the present study tried to explain the recent policy of the Ministry of Science, based on an institutional perspective.
Materials and Methods: To achieve this, 17 faculty members of universities and research institutes in Iran who were faced with this policy, as main beneficiaries by intensity case sampling method and according to the theoretical saturation of the data were selected. The tool of the study was a semi-structured interview. To analyze the interviews, the Colaizzi content analysis was applied and to examine the validity of the research findings, the member-checking method was used.
Discussion and Conclusions: The findings of the analysis showed that the policy about the industry has faced some issues such as illegitimacy, coercion, consistency with the interests of policymakers, ignoring disciplinary differences, and ignoring economic, sociology, and policy conditions. These issues indicate that the policy is based on the policy created in the oligarchic institutions.

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