Designing the regulations for faculty members promotion with the aim of improving the relationship between industry and university

This article aims to redesign parts of the promotion regulations for faculty members in order to strengthen the connection between industry and university.

This research uses design science methodology and within its framework, semi-structured interviews with experts and specialists in designing and focus group in validating of results have been used.

After analyzing different clauses of the regulation and identifying the relationship of these clauses with different types of industry-university communication paths, 11 clauses have been proposed in which more priority and credit have been given to the paths of creating spin-off companies and joint research with industry.
Discussion and

Industry-university communication is one of the recognized policies in the world for benefiting from the synergy between university and industry for economic growth and development. Industry-university communication is influenced by various factors and among them, the role of policy tools in creating industry-university communication is very essential; instruments that create institutional grounds for this communication in the form of laws and regulations have a direct impact on the behavior and decisions of actors involved in this communication. The promotion regulation is one of the effective policy tools that has a direct relationship with faculty members as the main actors of the university sector and with a proper design, it can direct the activities of faculty members towards strengthening industry-university communication. This article, while maintaining the current structure of the regulation, tries to transform this regulation into an effective policy tool for strengthening industry-university communication by proposing some clauses.