%0 Journal Article %T The Role of University and Industry in the Ecosystem of Innovation in the line with realization of Sustainable Innovation %J Journal of Innovation and Value Creation %I Iranian society for Advancement of Industry-Academia Collaboration %Z 2717-0454 %A mohammad zarinjooee %A drnemati drnemati %A hamide reshadatjoo %D 1399 %\ 1399/09/11 %V 17 %N 9 %P 199-210 %! The Role of University and Industry in the Ecosystem of Innovation in the line with realization of Sustainable Innovation %K Innovation ecosystem %K Role of university %K role of industry %K Sustainable innovation %X The aim of this study was to The Role of University and Industry in the Ecosystem of Innovation in the line with realization of Sustainable Innovation. The Mixed method was conducted. In the qualitative study, the population was consisted all of the experts in two field of university and industry. A purposive sampling of 20 experts were selected. The In the quantitative section, the statistical population consisted of middle managers and executives of the university and industry field in Tehran. In this section, stratified random sampling method was used, so 205 people were selected by this method. To collect data, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were used. To analysis of qualitative data, thematic analysis, and for quantitative data partial least square method were used. The results showed that the roles of the university and industry include six roles of teaching, research, social service, help to technology development, help to innovation development, help to entrepreneurship development. Based on the findings of this research, the roles of university, industry, based on the goodness of fit index were highly fitted. In this model, both institutions of the university and industry had a significant impact on the ecosystem. The industry with a higher factor loading was in the first place of the importance of role in creating the ecosystem, and the institution of the university with a lower factor loading was on the next order. The model's power of prediction criterion, indicated that exogenous variables, i.e., university and industry roles, have the potential to predict the formation of the ecosystem (relationship) of the university and the industry %U http://rimag.ir/fa/Article/9840