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Medina Coronado, Daniela – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2018
Within the framework of the current University Law 30220 and the processes involved in its implementation in search for quality of higher education, this article is written to introduce the reader to what Peruvian universities are and should be doing to fulfill one of their important roles: research and technological development. Different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Role, Research and Development
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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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Bruno, Karl; Larsen, Katarina; van Leeuwen, Thed N. – Research Evaluation, 2017
This article examines dynamics of knowledge production and discourses of basic-applied science and relevance at the Swedish Institute for Surface Chemistry, a semi-public industrially oriented research institute, from 1980 to 2005. We employ a three-pronged method, consisting of (1) an analysis of how the institute articulated its research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Research, Chemistry, Research and Development Centers
Anderson, R. Joseph; Butler, Orville R. – Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, 2008
This project is the first systematic study of the organizational structure, communications patterns, and archival records of industrial physicists in the U.S., and it provides general guidelines for understanding and documenting their work. The study confirms that the organization and management of industrial R&D is volatile, changing in response…
Descriptors: Physics, Corporations, Industry, Laboratories
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Streharsky, Charmaine J. – Research Management Review, 1988
Public confidence in the results of research conducted by universities and research and development laboratories is being threatened by the disclosure of instances of ineptitude, plagiarism, and outright fraud at some of our most prestigious institutions. Pressures for consistent success in research can promote an environment conducive to…
Descriptors: Cheating, Ethics, Fraud, Higher Education
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Geiger, Roger L. – Journal of Higher Education, 1990
The history of organized research units suggests that they have played an important role in the reorientation of university research toward applied knowledge. This has allowed American universities to expand parts of their research commitments in response to social demands without significantly affecting their fundamental educational mission. (MSE)
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Organizational Development, Research Administration
Bennof, Richard J. – 1998
This data brief reports on statistics related to the federal academic science and engineering obligations. The data is presented in one chart and two tables that provide information on federal science and engineering and science and engineering research and development obligations during the fiscal years 1986-1996, federal academic science and…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Engineering Education, Financial Support, Higher Education
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Nolting, Louvan E.; Feshbach, Murray – Science, 1980
Examined are the number and distribution of persons engaged in research and development in the U.S.S.R. Quantitative comparisons are made between Soviet and U.S. research and development employment. Data indicate that the estimated number of scientists and engineers in the U.S.S.R. substantially exceeds the number in the U.S. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Economic Development, Engineering, Engineering Technology
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Williams, James G.; And Others – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1995
Provides a background on the use of the digital computer to support visualization in scientific computing (scientific visualization). Includes an example of scientific and nonscientific visualization. Reviews both scientific and other visualization research literature; development; and applications organized around a model of visualization…
Descriptors: Background, Computer Interfaces, Digital Computers, Information Technology
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1985
This Office of Technology Assessment report on the current state of research and development in the telecommunications industry in the United States examines four specific areas of research as case studies: computer architecture, artificial intelligence, fiber optics, and software engineering. It discusses the structure and orientation of some…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Case Studies, Computers, Foreign Countries
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Rapoport, Alan I. – 1999
This issue brief presents data illustrating the diversity across federal agency support in the science and engineering fields as emphasized in their funding of both academic research and science and engineering graduate students. Funding data show that changes in the balance of academic research funding across agencies are likely to affect both…
Descriptors: Engineering, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Graduate Students
Boonin, Leonard G. – 1985
The concept of owning knowledge is somewhat ethereal and until recently had little relevance to academic institutions. In principle any object that is capable of being controlled is capable of being owned. The most basic control concerns decisions about whether to communicate knowledge. The philosophical foundation which is the basis of the legal…
Descriptors: Business, Constitutional Law, Discovery Processes, Genetic Engineering
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. – 1986
Because of the changes occurring in the chemical sciences, a new survey of chemistry and its intellectual and economic impact was clearly needed. This report presents a current assessment of the status of chemistry and of the future opportunities in the field. This analysis contains: (1) an introductory chapter (establishing the need for the…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Case Studies, Chemical Industry, Chemistry
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Saddique, Abu Bakr – Information Development, 1989
Summarizes the development of scientific and technological libraries and document centers in Bangladesh and describes the problems of acquiring scientific literature through purchase, gift, and exchange programs. The effectiveness of cooperative acquisition programs and international sources of document supply are examined, and plans for future…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Needs, International Educational Exchange
Kenney, Martin – 1985
Even at this early date in the application of biotechnology to agriculture, it is clear that agriculture may provide the largest market for new or less expensive biotechnologically manufactured products. The chemical and pharmaceutical industries that hold important positions in agricultural inputs are consolidating their positions by purchasing…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Trends, Biological Sciences, Farmers