The need for Universities and industries, which for long have been operating in separate domains, are rapidly inching closer to each other to create synergies. University funding and support by governments to universities is constantly being reduced while the costs of university education and research are systematically rising. A productive University-Industry collaboration is needed in response to such challenges and to the growing complexity of the industry environment which necessitates such partnership. Higher education institutions not only contribute skilled human resources to industry, but also research outputs. The intersecting needs and mutually interdependent relationship requires identifying means of further strengthening University-industry partnerships. This paper explores how the University of Botswana can work closely with industry, study the dimensions of universityindustry partnership, and develops a model for University-Industry partnership from which a model for implementing UBIndustry has been proposed. The study approach draws from the results of staff productivity study, information from staff and stakeholders. The model for implementing University-Industry partnership identifies areas where industry’s contribution to the University would be most effective and vice versa.

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