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Arab-British Educational Collaboration Project An Empirical Investigation into Oil Producing Arab Countries

Abstract

Globalisation is seen to be offering much greater opportunities for both the developed and the developing nations. The developed countries can obtain huge marketplace for their surplus producing power by selling goods, transferring technology, by setting up joint venture etc, while the developing countries can acquire advanced technology and knowledge as a result of promising market opening and providing human resources and raw material. Therefore, involvement of technology and knowledge transfer as a whole in the international collaboration project seems to be an open secret. Furthermore, knowledge transfer/knowledge sharing has been widely recognised to be strategically significant for international collaboration. Li Hua, Iles & Almhdie (2004) address the appropriateness and effectiveness of knowledge transfer in Libya when foreign and local managers work together on an international joint venture project. The study had identified that without knowledge transfer, technology transfer does not take place in international joint venture projects, as knowledge is the key to control technology as a whole. Hence, knowledge transfer is crucial in the process of international collaboration projects. However, lack of empirical evidence in this area, in particular in higher education, has limited our understanding of this important phenomenon.