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Stephen MacGregor; Joel R. Malin; Elizabeth N. Farley-Ripple – Peabody Journal of Education, 2022
Education policy continues to press for increased use of research evidence in decision-making, yet decades of research point to weak links between research and practice. We see evidence-informed improvement not as a problem with schools, but with a larger evidence-use ecosystem. As a step toward building and strengthening multidirectional paths…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy, Systems Approach, Research and Development
Thomas, Jeena M.; Olson, Steve – National Academies Press, 2023
On September 22, 2022, the National Academy of Sciences held a symposium entitled Endless Frontier 2022: Research and Higher Education Institutions for the Next 75 Years. The event was a follow up to a February 2020 NAS symposium convened to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the landmark report Science, the Endless Frontier. Building on the 2020…
Descriptors: Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Science and Society
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Onuka, Adams O. U. – African Higher Education Review, 2012
That research is a veritable tool for rapid social and economic development is undoubtedly well known globally. That educational researching is fraught with multi-dimensional challenges cannot be over-stressed. That multi-disciplinary approach and public-private, public-public, private-private partnership in educational researching for better and…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Research, Research and Development, Barriers
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Geuna, Aldo; Muscio, Alessandro – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2009
Universities have long been involved in knowledge transfer activities. Yet the last 30 years have seen major changes in the governance of university-industry interactions. Knowledge transfer has become a strategic issue: as a source of funding for university research and (rightly or wrongly) as a policy tool for economic development. Universities…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Industry, Copyrights
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Resources, Community, and Economic Development Div. – 1998
In 1980, Congress passed the Bayh-Dole Act (BDA) to allow universities, not-for-profit corporations, and small businesses to retain title to and market federally funded inventions, and to allow federal agencies to grant exclusive licenses for federally owned technology. This report to congressional committees addresses the manner in which the BDA…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Government Role
Desruisseaux, Paul – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2000
Reports that some universities are starting their own venture-capital funds to develop campus companies, or are investing endowment funds with established venture-capital firms inclined to finance potential spinoffs from campus research. Examples cited are from the University of Alabama, Vanderbilt University (Tennessee), University of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Investment, Research and Development, Research Universities
Huberman, Michael – 1992
To talk about the dissemination of research is to talk about the relationship between theory and practice. A body of empirical and conceptual knowledge has accumulated in an area known as the dissemination and utilization of scientific knowledge. Researchers and practitioners will interact at two points: as the knowledge base is transferred, and…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Diffusion (Communication), Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Orlans, Harold – 1972
The independent, nonprofit research institute is a phenomenon of the twentieth century. These institutions now engage in research not only in industry, but also in national defense programs, public health, space exploration, atomic energy, education, economics, and public policy. The nonprofit research institutes are of particular interest because…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Role, Private Agencies, Research
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Newell, Robert – Nurse Education Today, 2002
Examination of two British mental health journals and a government document on the future of nursing found a lack of focus on clinical research and little reference to the role of research and development in practice. The increasing importance of evidence-based practice demands a strategy for developing nurses' capacity to understand, undertake,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Nursing Education, Nursing Research, Research and Development
Mason, Ward S. – 1979
Purposes and functions of regional research and development (R&D) services sponsored by the National Institute of Education (NIE) are described, based on a task force's assessment of R&D services provided by regional laboratories. The historical context of the following questions are addressed: whether the conduct of R&D constitutes a…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Coordination, Educational Development, Educational Research
Birnbaum, Robert – 1998
This paper rebuts four common assumptions underlying criticisms of higher education policy scholarship and policy making. The first assumption, policymakers agree on the nature of policy problems and therefore on the kinds of research needed, is rebutted by noting that actually, there is no way to identify and research all possible future policy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Policy Formation, Research and Development
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McKenna, Judy; Bickle, Marianne; Carroll, Jan B. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences: From Research to Practice, 2002
A merchandising course illustrates Boyer's four stages of scholarship--discovery, integration, application, and teaching--and adds a fifth: outcome (production of a scholarly product). The model is a means of integrating teaching and research in family and consumer sciences education. (SK)
Descriptors: Faculty Promotion, Faculty Publishing, Higher Education, Research and Development
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Link, Albert N. – Industry and Higher Education, 2000
Sets forth guidelines for assessing the economic impact of university research and development and identifies what may become the roles and responsibilities of technology transfer officers in the assessment process. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: College Administration, Economic Impact, Higher Education, Research and Development
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Deem, Rosemary – Higher Education Quarterly, 2006
The paper considers whether, and if so how, research evidence can permeate the world of higher education (HE) management in publicly funded institutions. The paper explores the author's experience of two recent research projects (1998-2000 and 2004) on aspects of managing UK HE institutions and issues arising from the preparation of the HE element…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Higher Education, Public Schools, Public Service
Regional Educational Lab. Network. – 2001
The Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) program was established more than 30 years ago, and 10 RELs have been working at school sites in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories since 1985. The labs work on regional and national education issues, applying what they learn from their own and others' research and development…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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