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Llanos-Paredes, Pedro – Research Evaluation, 2023
This study examines the impact of the Fraunhofer Society, Europe's largest network of applied research institutes, on patent applications. A difference-in-differences strategy was employed exploiting the establishment of five new Fraunhofer centres in the 2000s. The panel includes 65,963 European applicants (both firms and independent inventors)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research, Intellectual Property, Research and Development Centers
Boroush, Mark – National Science Foundation, 2020
The U.S. R&D enterprise relies on businesses, federal and nonfederal governments, higher education institutions, and other nonprofit organizations. This report identifies trends in R&D performance and funding and compares them to those of the world's other major economies. The U.S. annual total of R&D has expanded steadily since 2010…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Financial Support, Trend Analysis, Performance
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Chan, Roy Y. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
The field of higher education studies has expanded dramatically in recent years. Notably, research centers/institutes and academic programs devoted to the field of higher education (tertiary education) has increased worldwide to now include peer-reviewed journals, books, reports and publications. Utilizing secondary data from 277 higher education…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study, College Programs, Research and Development Centers, Periodicals
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Zgaga, Pavel – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
This article focuses on higher education research and policies in small and/or peripheral countries that usually occupy a marginal position in contemporary international debates. The region discussed here is South-eastern Europe and especially the Western Balkans. First, an outline of emerging research centres and the developments in higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Role, Educational Research, Educational Policy
Stilwell, Neil C. – 1988
This ERIC resource guide of current materials and resources provides assistance for classroom teachers and curriculum writers in the development of educational strategies for teaching about the culture, the history, and the issues confronting the nations of Western Europe. The ERIC resources include abstracts of 13 documents and 14 articles. In…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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Smeaton, Alan F. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Describes the European Strategic Programme of Research and Development in Information Technology (ESPRIT), and its five programs: advanced microelectronics, software technology, advanced information processing, office systems, and computer integrated manufacturing. The emphasis on logic programming and ESPRIT as the European response to the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Database Management Systems, Foreign Countries, Information Processing