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The CEFR as a National Language Policy in Vietnam: Insights from a Sociogenetic Analysis
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Nguyen, Van Huy; Hamid, M. Obaidul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has long been considered a global policy in language education. It has been borrowed and adopted by different polities across the world. However, it is still not clear why the CEFR, intended for European usage, has become a ubiquitous tool for overhauling the quality of teaching and…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Rating Scales, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Academic Technology Transfer: Tracking, Measuring and Enhancing Its Impact
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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
Academic Entrepreneurship in South African HEIs
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Grundling, J. P.; Steynberg, L. – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
This article first identifies the principal forces that impact on and shape entrepreneurially-oriented higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, and then analyses the degree to which those institutions have succeeded in becoming entrepreneurial. The results reveal that South Africa's HEIs are still in the initial phases of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Developing Nations
The Information Economy--A European Agenda.
Wilmot, R. – 1984
From a European perspective, this paper focuses on a set of issues affecting the emerging information economy. Among the issues covered are: developing a means of measuring the value of information and knowledge; studying other institutions such as the United States Department of Defense and the United States venture capital industry which are…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Information Needs
Technological Entrepreneurship. Research in Entrepreneurship and Management Series.
Phan, Philip H., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 11 papers on technological entrepreneurship, with particular focus on the following topics: the context of technological entrepreneurship; value creation and opportunity recognition in turbulent environments; venture capital in technological entrepreneurship; and managing in turbulent environments. The following papers are…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Case Studies, Definitions, Economic Change
Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies, and the Entrepreneurial University.
Slaughter, Sheila; Leslie, Larry L. – 1997
Globalization of the political economy, and the attendant reductions in government funding, liaisons with business and industry, and marketing of educational and business services, has been changing the nature of academic labor. The first three chapters discuss the ways in which global political and economic changes have had an impact on higher…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Comparative Education, Corporate Support