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Le, Thanh – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This article investigates whether student flows significantly channel academic knowledge from developed countries in the North to less developed ones in the South. It also examines if human capital absorbs and materialises this academic knowledge into technological development. Empirical analysis on a panel of 55 developing countries over…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Research and Development, Productivity
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Rose Mutuota – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
African students studying abroad and returning home to conduct research face several challenges. The purpose of this article is to describe the dilemma of a Kenyan student conducting research in Kenya, for her Australian-based doctoral studies in inclusive education. The research explored instructional strategies and Indigenous knowleges used by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Culture, Doctoral Students, Study Abroad
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James, Jeffrey – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The well-known s-shaped diffusion of technology curve generally works well in developed countries. But how does it perform in the very different context of developing countries? Across a wide range of new technologies imported from the developed countries it works poorly. In most cases the penetration rate fails to reach 25% of the population. The…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Telecommunications, Population Distribution
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Eid, Ashraf – Education Economics, 2012
This paper is a macro study on higher education R&D and its impact on productivity growth. I measure the social rate of return on higher education R&D in 17 high-income OECD countries using country level data on the percentage of gross expenditure on R&D performed by higher education, business, and government sectors over the period…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advantaged, Developed Nations, Research and Development
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Obamba, Milton Odhiambo; Mwema, Jane Kimbwarata – Higher Education Policy, 2009
International partnership spanning various organizational and geographical boundaries has emerged as the dominant paradigm for organizing modern scientific research; and for undertaking international development policy. Academic collaboration has become ubiquitous, embedded in organizational cultures, and is increasingly organized in a wide…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Scientific Research, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries
King, Judson C., Ed.; Douglass, John Aubrey, Ed.; Feller, Irwin, Ed. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2007
To frame the larger research agenda requires an intimate blending of knowledge of the situations of foreign research universities and those of public research universities in the United States. The first step was to bring together for a two-day symposium a group of scholars and practitioners, some with deep and varied knowledge of United States…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Public Colleges, Research Universities