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Muammer Maral – SAGE Open, 2024
This study aims to analyze the research performance of 38 OECD countries in the last 10 years. For this purpose, the research performance of these countries was analyzed using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods with the productivity and publication impact data of 38 countries. The analyses were conducted both normal data and also with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research, Performance, International Organizations
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Hwang, Youngsik – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
The STEM field has contributed significantly to the development of society because its findings result in new technology, which gives people more efficient tools and methods for a better standard of living. Postsecondary institutions have trained STEM field graduates through advanced curricula and learning environments. Compared to other academic…
Descriptors: Research and Development, STEM Education, Educational Research, Educational Finance
Brian Backstrom; Patrick Schumacher – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2024
The State University of New York (SUNY) is the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the United States, currently providing affordable, quality higher education to about 1.4 million students across its system of 64 college and university campuses and its entire portfolio of credit- and noncredit-bearing courses and programs,…
Descriptors: Public Education, State Colleges, Economic Impact, Industry
Hu, Xiaodan; Ortagus, Justin C.; Voorhees, Nicholas; Rosinger, Kelly; Kelchen, Robert – AERA Open, 2022
Performance-based funding (PBF) policies with research incentives have grown in popularity over the years despite little understanding regarding whether they actually work. This study leverages a novel national data set to examine the impact of PBF research incentives on the research expenditures and total state appropriations among public 4-year…
Descriptors: Financial Support, State Aid, Accountability, Educational Finance
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Vlk, Aleš; Fojt, Otakar; Stanzel, Jirí – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2020
The purpose of our contribution is to discuss shortcomings of purely descriptive quantitative evaluation of research policies -- based either on inputs (public investment, number of researchers), or outputs (publications, EU grants, number of patents). To give an example, we compare selected indicators across Visegrad countries in the period…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Research and Development, Input Output Analysis, Investment
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Garcia-Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria; Mas-Verdú, Francisco; Roig-Tierno, Norat – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper examines interactions between the presence of top-ranked universities and other conditions that encourage regional competitiveness. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was conducted to assess the combined effect of the conditions. The analysis yields several noteworthy conclusions. First, no single condition is necessary…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Achievement Rating, Competition
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Lynch, Erin; Towns, Tangela; Allen, Louise – About Campus, 2021
The National Center for Educational Statistics (US Department of Education, 2016) reports enrollment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has increased 36 percent since 1990, with the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPED) reporting 355,058 students enrolled in HBCUs compared to 260,381 in 1990. The growth of…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Research and Development, Expenditures
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Hou, Chunguang; Fan, Peilei; Du, Debin; Gui, Qinchang; Duan, Dezhong – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
The knowledge production capacity of a country depends not only on its internal innovation factors, but also on its 'social capital' in the global network. International student mobility networks have become an important component of social capital that affects a country's knowledge production capacity. This study combines the social network…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Study Abroad, Social Capital
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Zapp, Mike – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2022
Global science expansion and the 'skills premium' in labor markets have been extensively discussed in the literature on the global knowledge economy, yet the focus on, broadly-speaking, knowledge-related personnel as a key factor is surprisingly absent. This article draws on UIS and OECD data on research and development (R&D) personnel for the…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Trend Analysis, Labor Market, Research and Development
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Jung, Jisun – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2020
Recent discourse about the fourth industrial revolution has revealed several issues in Korea, suggesting the need for fundamental changes in the industrial structure and higher education systems, which can prepare Korea for potential periods of technological unemployment. For example, labour expenses in Korea are predicted to be rapidly reduced if…
Descriptors: Industrialization, Higher Education, Educational Change, Unemployment
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Rodrigues, Ana Luísa; Cerdeira, Luísa; Patrocínio, Tomás; Cabrito, Belmiro; Mucharreira, Pedro – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Higher education institutions (HEIs) contribute substantially to the quality of life (QoL) of the regions where they operate and to the progress and sustainable development of a country. This research intends to have an innovative approach in the study of the HEIs' impact on the QoL of regions by taking into consideration both qualitative and…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Educational Indicators
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Brint, Steven; Carr, Cynthia E. – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2017
Extending and expanding Geiger and Feller's (1995) analysis of increasing dispersion in R&D expenditures during the 1980s, the paper analyzes publication and citation counts as well as R&D expenditures for 194 top producers using Web of Science data. We find high and stable levels of inequality in the 1990s and 2000s, combined with robust…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Research Universities, Research and Development, Expenditures
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Chatterjee, Diti; Dinar, Ariel; González-Rivera, Gloria – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2019
Purpose: This paper is concerned with the impact of the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) on regional productivity in California agriculture. UCCE is responsible for agricultural research and development (R&D), and dissemination of agricultural know-how in the state. Method/methodology/approach: We estimate the effect of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Rural Extension, State Universities, Productivity
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Noorhapizah; Amhar – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
It is believed that the significance of various factors like the availability of training in technical terms, research and development expenditure, and government scholarships play a major role in increasing the quality of education. This study has been carried out in order to analyze the detailed impact of various variables on the quality of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Correlation, Economic Factors
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Wells, Xanthe E.; Foster, Nigel; Finch, Adam; Elsum, Ian – Journal of Research Administration, 2017
Sufficient and state-of-the-art research equipment is one component required to maintain the research competitiveness of a R&D organisation. This paper describes an approach to inform more optimal allocation of equipment expenditure levels in a large and diverse R&D organisation, such as CSIRO. CSIRO is Australia's national science agency,…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Research and Development, Equipment, Expenditures
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