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Lars Geschwind; Hampus Östh Gustafsson – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
This article analyses how the future has been discussed in Swedish higher education and research policy, providing an overview of public inquiries during the period 1970-2020. Expanding on the conceptual framework of German historian Reinhart Koselleck, the article approaches discourses on the future through the analytical lens of sociology of…
Descriptors: European History, Educational History, Higher Education, Research and Development
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Fredrik Sunnemark; Wilma Lundqvist Westin; Tamy Al Saad; Per Assmo – Learning Organization, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and facilitators for knowledge transfer and learning processes by examining a cross-departmental collaborative project in the municipal organization. It is based on a R&D collaboration between University West and a Swedish municipality. Design/methodology/approach: To explore the barriers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Learning, Municipalities, Technology Transfer
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Jonas Lindahl – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctoral students' research productivity is examined with a special focus on gender, parenthood, and the personality trait conscientiousness. Data consist of 614 doctoral students active in medicine, technology, the natural sciences in Sweden. Results indicate that the overall research productivity of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Research and Development, Productivity
Trueman, Stephen; Borrell-Damian, Lidia; Smith, John H. – European University Association, 2014
The modernisation process of universities has historically highlighted the necessity of providing support structures to facilitate contacts and relationships between research groups and the outside environment, with the objective of increasing the quantity and improving the quality of collaborative research activity. The first steps in this…
Descriptors: Universities, Technology Transfer, Administrative Organization, Cultural Influences
Olsson, Ulf – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2014
Scientists from five Swedish universities were interviewed about open second cycle education. Research groups and scientists collaborate closely with industry, and the selection of scientists for the study was made in relation to an interest in developing technology-enhanced open education, indicated by applications for funding from the Knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, School Business Relationship, Technology Uses in Education
Canadian Council on Learning, 2006
This report aims to inform Canadians on the extent to which Canada's post-secondary education sector is contributing to Canadians' social and economic objectives, its ability to respond to a fast-changing global environment, and how Canada's approach to higher education compares with other leading developed countries. Analysis of currently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Educational Objectives, Labor Force Development
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