Accelerating innovation to drive economic growth is the foremost goal for technology-based economic development organizations today. Realizing this goal through programmes is challenged by limited and outdated operating models. The authors outline their 21st Century Innovation Intermediary model, which pairs commercialization with regional…

This article describes the research capacity building efforts of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto over the past 12 years. It identifies the role of strategic planning, the process of change, and the key practices, in terms of personnel, resources, research center development, and strategic community…

The aim of this study was to understand the role that agricultural consultants in New Zealand were undertaking in the Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) system--and in particular in relation to environmental extension. New Zealand does not have a public extension service and hence there is a strong reliance on consultants and regional…

The numbers tell a grim story: By the time students with behavioral or emotional problems get to high school, they may be so alienated from adults or disruptive to their classmates that they simply drop out. According to a 2006 report from the U.S. Department of Education, the high school graduation rate for students identified as emotionally…

One of the key concepts in the right to education is access: access to the means to fully develop as human beings as well as access to the means to gain skills, knowledge and credentials. This is an important perspective through which to examine the solutions to access enabled by Open Educational Resources (OER) and online learning. The authors…

This article describes the origin of the Centre for History in Public Health and the significance of its location in a leading school of public health. It is in three parts: (1) A brief history of how the AIDS programme became the History Centre; (2) The distinctive approach of the Centre's staff as historians: their contribution and its…

Around the world, the fight for affordable medical treatment is intensifying. Headline-grabbing battles are being waged in India, where the Chennai High Court recently decided a major constitutional case over access to lifesaving cancer medication. In Thailand, Abbott Laboratories, a multinational pharmaceutical giant, has withdrawn registration…

Adequate financial support for research and development (R&D) activities at universities and colleges in the United States is essential for enabling academic researchers to perform world-class research. This brief focuses on the main sources of financial support for academic R&D and the changes that have taken place over the last two…

Part of the Saturday Review supplement, EDUCATIONIN AMERICA, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

Paper delivered to the Council of Teaching Hospitals at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Houston, Texas, November 1, 1969).

The final report summarizes activities over an 8-year period of a research, development and demonstration center for the education of handicapped children. An introductory section focuses on the history and administrative organization of the program. Brief summaries of 23 projects follow, with information on purpose, history, research activities…

THE AUTHORS HYPOTHESIZED THAT IF SUBJECTS WERE PRESENTED WITH "AMBIGUOUS" ANAGRAMS (THOSE WITH MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS), THE SOLUTION-WORD WITH THE HIGHEST NORMAL FREQUENCY OF OCCURRENCE WOULD BE DETERMINED FIRST, THE NEXT MOST FREQUENT SOLUTION-WORD WOULD BE DETERMINED SECOND, AND SO ON. SIXTY-NINE COLLEGE STUDENTS ATTEMPTED TO SOLVE 15…

Notes that deaths from natural and technological disasters are increasing in United States. Reviews key findings in areas of vulnerability to natural hazards, disaster behavior and risk perception, societal concern over technological hazard, and social-psychological effects of disasters. Calls for research examining the role of media and measuring…

Illustrates current status of thanatological research by examining the most popular line of empirical investigation (death anxiety as assessed by self-report scales) and the most sweeping theoretical approach yet proposed (Freud's death instinct). Notes that the most popular vein of research and most spectacular theory have almost no relationship…