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Peer reviewedMcBrierty, Vincent – Higher Education Management, 1993
Higher education has responded positively and in a variety of ways to changing business and industrial needs, using imagination to establish cooperative relationships. In Ireland, identifying industry's workforce needs was central to successful cooperation. Bridging the two very different cultures has also required creation of an appropriate…
Descriptors: College Administration, Cooperation, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFairweather, James S. – Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1990
Increasingly, academic institutions are asked to redress perceived national and regional economic shortcomings directly through technology transfer, formation of new companies, and product development; but the effectiveness of these mechanisms is unproven. Academic administrators must assess the match between capability and goals and preserve the…
Descriptors: College Role, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMartinussen, Jeff – Higher Education Management, 1993
It is suggested that small- and medium-sized public universities without a commercial tradition reorganize the research administration function to serve as information clearinghouses, conduct "business intelligence," and identify new technologies and entrepreneurs among researchers. Research administration could include other practical functions…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Administration, Entrepreneurship, Faculty College Relationship
Peer reviewedSacken, Donal M. – Journal of College and University Law, 1992
A discussion of legal aspects of college faculty efforts to profit from their research activities considers whether judicially acknowledged distinctions between faculty's academic and personal pursuits will apply in such cases of commercialization. Implications for increased regulation of core institutional and faculty activities are examined.…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Court Litigation, Entrepreneurship
Peer reviewedSayetat, Francoise – Higher Education Management, 1993
A 1992 international seminar on strategies for promoting technology transfer in European universities is summarized. Issues addressed include objectives of technology transfer, evaluation of available resources, institutional climate supporting technology transfer, appropriate administrative arrangements, and the differing perspectives of industry…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Conferences, Entrepreneurship
Slaughter, Sheila; Leslie, Larry L. – 1997
Globalization of the political economy, and the attendant reductions in government funding, liaisons with business and industry, and marketing of educational and business services, has been changing the nature of academic labor. The first three chapters discuss the ways in which global political and economic changes have had an impact on higher…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Comparative Education, Corporate Support
