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Natow, Rebecca S. – Educational Policy, 2022
This case study examined how research has been used in the federal higher education rulemaking process, through which the U.S. Department of Education implements programs under the Higher Education Act. Findings indicate that in this high-conflict policymaking process, politics infuses various forms of research use to create several overlapping…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Politics, Higher Education, Public Policy
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Upton, Stevie – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2012
This paper examines the drivers for knowledge exchange in British research-intensive universities, at a time when research impact is coming to be seen as an increasingly important outcome of research in all disciplines. It provides evidence of an over-emphasis of the economic benefits of knowledge exchange in the policy sphere and of a quite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Values, Economic Factors
Alt, Albert G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This case study examined a multi-college community college district in northern California in a primarily rural area, to understand how their practices compared to management best practices designed to improve student success, barriers that may exist in implementing best practices, and how the institution may improve its own practices. The problem…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Decision Making, Success, Academic Achievement
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Dai, Yixin; Popp, David; Bretschneider, Stuart – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005
Over the past 20 years, the number of patents assigned to universities has increased dramatically. This increase coincided with several policy initiatives, such as the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, designed to foster technology transfer between universities and the private sector. This paper examines the effect of such policies using an institutional…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Private Sector, Intellectual Property, Higher Education
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Davis, Heather; Evans, Terry; Hickey, Christopher – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2006
This paper discusses the higher education sector's role in a knowledge-based economy though research training, that is, doctoral education. It also examines how a Faculty of Education supports its doctoral candidates in their endeavours to become "knowledge producers". Two themes are explored: one is Australia's limited investment in…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Postsecondary Education
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Schuller, Tom; Jochems, Wim; Moos, Lejf; van Zanten, Agnes – European Educational Research Journal, 2006
The EERJ roundtable took as its point of departure the experience of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) in carrying out policy research. CERI has conducted four reviews of national educational research and development (in New Zealand, England, Mexico and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis