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Mok, Ka Ho; Jiang, Jin – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Realizing the growing importance of universities in Knowledge Transfer and innovation-centric entrepreneurship, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) actively encourages government-funded universities in Hong Kong to work with the market and industry, as well as wider society to stimulate innovation and…
Descriptors: Governance, Universities, Entrepreneurship, Technology Transfer
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Gaus, Olaf; Raith, Matthias G. – Industry and Higher Education, 2016
While knowledge-intensive societies rely heavily on universities for the creation of knowledge, its translation into economic value is typically performed by firms in the market. Since universities increasingly depend on additional funds for new and expensive research, current policies urge them to interact proactively with the market. The authors…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Commercialization, Research and Development
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Hazzan, Orit; Zelig, Dafna – Management in Education, 2016
Business organizations adopt innovation with the objective of meeting competition and improving their business performance; education organizations, likewise, operate in a competitive environment, are evaluated by stakeholders, and adopt innovation. The research presented here links these two sectors; its objective was to characterize the process…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation, Commercialization, Operations Research
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Rönnberg, Linda – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This paper explores how "social democratic" Sweden initiated and implemented choice reforms that attracted the interest of "liberal" England. By studying how English media framed and portrayed the Swedish free school "export" from 2008 to 2014, this paper aims to describe and discuss how a market-oriented policy idea,…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Achievement Tests, Low Achievement, Stereotypes
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Yang, Rui – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
The educational exchange relationship between developed and developing (not accidentally non-Western) countries has always been characterized by imbalances and asymmetries. Accordingly, the traditional forms of North-South relationships have been between donors and recipients. International educational exchange between developed and developing…
Descriptors: International Educational Exchange, Global Approach, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Policy
US Congress, 2011
The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-358) was put in place to invest in innovation through research and development, to improve the competitiveness of the United States, and for other purposes. The table of contents for this Act is as follows: (1) Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents; (2) Sec. 2. Definitions; and (3)…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Computation, Research and Development, Innovation