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This paper addresses policy actors' roles and actions that impede policy coherence in national programs for local collaboration between industry and university. With respect to the actions of central ministries, the main problems causing policy incoherence are the duplication of policy contents, the lack of fulfillment of target groups' needs in a top-down operating system, and the dispersion of ministries responsible for the programs. Also, since local governments do not have legitimate roles to deal with the programs and interests in the programs driven by central government, they do not seem to try to enhance policy coherence. In addition, the capacity of local government to manage and coordinate the programs is weak due to the long-term centralism. The role of university in policy coherence is also limited due to following problems: academics' strong ownership of their programs; their few collaborating activities stemming from different operating systems of individual programs; and the low involvement of the IACF(Industry-Academia Collaboration Foundation) in the programs. These problems seem to be influenced by policy environments and operating systems in relation to the dispersion of ministries, independent operation of the individual programs, and a top-down implementation system to a large degree.