Review the Industry-University Interactional Models in Knowledge-Based Economy

The developing of the relations between Industry and University by cause and positive effect on technological, economic and social changes and transformations was noticed by strategists, politicians and university and industry planners, and was more effort toward creating an effective linkage between university and industry. The 21st century is the century of knowledge-based international economic competition. More than ever, the prosperity of nations depends on the ability of public and private institutions, policies, managers, and workers to mobilize and exploit knowledge-intensive capabilities and assets. Industry without online knowledge surely died and knowledge without applying in industrial operation is not good and is valueless, this meaning is, connecting Industry and University. This present paper purpose is reviewing the existing theories and models of relationship between Industry, University and other affecting institutions in knowledge-based economy. In this study, we reviewed “Triple Helix models TH1, TH2, TH3” (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff), “Evolutionary Schema” (Bercovitz and Feldmann), “Quadruple Helix” (Carayannis and Campbell), “Quintuple Helix” (Carayannis and Campbell), and represented and reviewed the “Islamic Republic of Iran’s Regional Quintuple Helix” (Samadi-Miarkolaei), and “N-Tuple of Helices” between Industry and University (Leydesdorff), and at the end, we said some suggestions to improvement of relations between Industry and University.

University Industry, Theories and Models, Knowledge-based Economy, Iranian Regional Quintuple Helix