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Direct linkSa, Creso M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
The emerging field of nanotechnology has created a new frontier for the convergence of university and industrial research. In the United States, major federal investments provided a massive boom for this field over the decade. This paper reports on a case study of how the University at Albany came to establish the first college of nanotechnology…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Technology Transfer, Case Studies, School Business Relationship
Fraser, John – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
Since the 1980 passage of the US Bayh-Dole Act, academic technology transfer has gained profile globally as a key component of knowledge-driven economic development. Research universities are seen as key contributors. In this article, focusing on the USA and drawing on over twenty years of experience in the field of academic technology transfer in…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Research Universities, Technology Transfer, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFairweather, James S. – Review of Higher Education, 1990
The highly visible, large-scale research agreements between corporations and research universities imply that higher education's principle roles in economic development are applied research and technology transfer. This is misleading, masking the contributions through education and training, research, and professional development and suggesting…
Descriptors: College Role, Economic Development, Elitism, Higher Education
Download full textCommittee for Economic Development, 1998
This policy statement looks at America's basic research enterprise and lays out the processes and systematic reforms needed to meet emerging risks to the outcomes from investments in basic research. The Committee for Economic Development (CED) undertook this project in the belief that significant progress with many of society's problems and new…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Progress, Technology Transfer, Research
Mingle, James R.; Walker, Catherine – 1985
Results of a survey of the states to determine state incentive programs for graduate education are presented. Attention is directed to three types of initiatives that are receiving special attention in the states: (1) programs to endow faculty chairs (eminent scholars program); (2) funding for special program initiatives or "centers of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Economic Climate, Economic Development, Financial Support
Gourova, Elissaveta; Ducatel, Ken; Gavigan, James; Scapolo, Fabiana; Di Pietrogiacomo, Paola – 2001
The next 10 years provide an opportunity for the European Union (EU) to renew the science and technology (S&T) base and build necessary knowledge-society capacities and capabilities in Pre-Accession Countries (PACs). Applied research has faced a major downsize; redressing the balance in the research and development systems is urgently needed.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development
