산학협력단 지배구조의 투명성 강화 방안

With the acceleration of industrial technologies of today, universities are now expected to not only foster creative industrial manpower, but also to contribute to the development of the community and nation by fostering, distributing, disseminating and commercializing new knowledge and technologies. Under such an environment, the government has introduced a new form of a special corporation through the industry-academic cooperation program and it makes it possible to pursue efficiency by establishing and operating based on the normative system, rather than a concession system, despite the fact that it is anon-profit organization taking the autonomy of universities into considerations However, the industry-academic cooperation institutions that should be operated independently based on the ‘principle of self-responsibility’ are in fact being operated in a manner under the absolute impact of the college presiident or dean, and therefore, are serving as no more than a sub-organization of the school. In particular, due to one-person board systems, which does not allow participation of interested parties, there have been issues such as misappropriation and embezzlement of industry-academic cooperation organizations using the superior position of the investor, and has reached a point in which it has become no longer functional in contributing to the development of the university and community. Therefore, it is necessary to search for methods that can make the governance of industry-academic cooperation organizations transparent, guarantee the participation of interested parties, and procure professional human resources. In order to overcome the current structural limitations of non-profit special corporation, it is not only essential to transform the industry-academic cooperation organization’s governance into an organization participated by the interested parties of the school and community, but also to exclude the influence of the school president or dean, procure experts with management capabilities, impose the duties of due diligence and good faith for directors and executives, etc., and procure a monitoring system.