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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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Petch, Alison; Lightowler, Claire; Pattoni, Lisa; Watson, Ian – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2014
This paper explores ways in which IRISS (Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services) promotes the delivery of cost effective social services in Scotland that support the achievement of positive outcomes. The approach to evidence-informed practice is characterised as four pillars of activity. The first focuses on improving awareness…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Innovation, Creativity
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Bajaj, Deepak – College Quarterly, 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess the role of Competitive and Market Intelligence (CI/MI) Research as a potential source for improving the innovation capability of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) leading to successful new product/services/processes/capabilities development (Cooper & Edgett, 2002). This report highlights the…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Capacity Building, Research and Development, Innovation
Aaron, Elizabeth – High Technology, 1988
Indicates that industry sponsored research in the university environment is increasing. Lists reasons for companies to use university research. Notes 1980 Baigh-Dole Bill which allows the university first rights to technologies they develop. (MVL)
Descriptors: Business, College Science, Innovation, Inventions
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Roy, Santanu – Industry and Higher Education, 2006
Managing R&D and the innovation process is closely linked with technology transfer and the commercialization of research results. This is especially so in the context of publicly-funded R&D laboratory systems in developing countries, such as India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Inefficiencies in the transfer…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Research and Development, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
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Fulop, Liz; Couchman, Paul – Higher Education Research and Development, 2006
The number of university-industry R&D partnerships (UIPs) has increased significantly over the past decade, in most OECD countries and in Australia, yet the study of risk in such commercially focused collaborative ventures is still a developing area. This review paper seeks to contribute to debate on this increasingly important phenomenon by…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Cooperation
Tornatzky, Louis G. – 1983
Innovation includes not only the production of new technology but also its use. From the user's perspective several stages are indicated including acquiring initial awareness of the new technology, deciding about its merit, adopting, implementing and deploying, and eventually establishing routine use. This process is longitudinal, involving units…
Descriptors: Diffusion (Communication), Innovation, Psychologists, Psychology
Andewelt, Roger B. – 1987
The recent increased awareness of the importance to our economy of innovation and the development of new technologies has been coupled with the crafting of new legislation to increase the level of intellectual property protection available to innovators. Because one of the key methods of encouraging the efficient use of intellectual property is…
Descriptors: Certification, Competition, Federal Legislation, Innovation
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Lynn, Leonard – Science, 1986
Traces the growth and movement of Japanese research and technology efforts and achievements. Explains policies related to science and technology and examines resultant actions. Provides perspectives on the future direction and role of creativity in Japanese research. (ML)
Descriptors: Creativity, Foreign Countries, Industrialization, Innovation
Creighton, J. W., Ed.; And Others – 1985
This report reviews a joint attempt of the United States Forest Service and the Naval Service to enhance the utilization of research results and the new technologies through improved effectiveness of technology transfer efforts. It consists of an introduction by J. W. Creighton and seven papers: (1) "Management for Change" by P. A.…
Descriptors: Change, Continuing Education, Genetic Engineering, Higher Education
Faris, Shannon K. – 1998
This digest examines some of the literature on technology transfer in the context of higher education, noting that the practice of capitalizing on academic research for commercial purposes has the potential to generate financial resources for the participating institutions of higher education. Several examples of technology transfer are cited,…
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Educational Finance, Educational Research, Higher Education
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Hanne, Daniel; Zeller, Martin – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1994
Describes electronic resources to support the technology transfer process. Resources are organized in the following categories: Research Facility Directories; Technology Transfer Contacts; Research and Laboratory Information Systems; Federal Government Databases and Information Systems; Aerospace, Technology, and Defence Databases; New Products…
Descriptors: Aerospace Technology, Annotated Bibliographies, Business, Computer Networks
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Peltason, J. W. – 1995
This monograph is a transcript of a lecture given by Jack W. Peltason and the four responses by panelists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a brief eulogy to David Dodds Henry, President of the University of Illinois (1955-71), the talk turns its focus to two decades of crisis for higher education--the 1960s and the 1990s.…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, College Presidents, Educational Economics
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan. Coll. of Education. – 1992
A conference on research to practice in adult, continuing and community education included the following papers: "Education as a Community Intervention Strategy" (Ashcraft, Andrews); "Assessing Educational Needs of Adults: An Ohio Extension Example" (Bratkovich, Miller); "Questions and Issues Related to a Lack of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students