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Riffat-un-Nisa Awan; Tazeen Ather – Cogent Education, 2024
Knowledge management is one of the valuable dimensions essential for the educational institution to support teachers' performance. Therefore, the role of leaders in encouraging teachers to create and share knowledge is vital to earn a competitive advantage. This research was planned to find the relationship among leadership styles…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Leadership Role, College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness
Melissa M. Quan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Community engagement in higher education has been promoted as critical to fulfilling higher education's responsibility to the public good through teaching, learning, and knowledge generation. Reciprocity and mutual benefit are key principles of community engagement that connote a two-way exchange of knowledge and shared power and decision making.…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Justice, Higher Education, Stakeholders
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Mukan, Nataliya; Havrylyuk, Marianna; Prots, Maryana – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
In the article, leadership in R&D activity in English and Welsh universities has been studied. The main objectives of the article are defined as following: to analyze the scientific literature which highlights different aspects of the problem under research, to identify the specificity of leadership practice in R&D, and to develop the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Research and Development, Universities
Trueman, Stephen; Borrell-Damian, Lidia; Smith, John H. – European University Association, 2014
The modernisation process of universities has historically highlighted the necessity of providing support structures to facilitate contacts and relationships between research groups and the outside environment, with the objective of increasing the quantity and improving the quality of collaborative research activity. The first steps in this…
Descriptors: Universities, Technology Transfer, Administrative Organization, Cultural Influences
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Uche, Chineze M.; Akaranta, O. – African Higher Education Review, 2012
Different development partners support research and capacity building in universities in different areas and for different motives. However, whatever the reasons for or areas of support, the research supported must contribute to the development of the institution, students, staff and the society at large. The supports should be able to enhance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Capacity Building, Research, Grants
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Kirkman, Dorothy M. – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2011
University technology transfer is a collaborative effort between academia and industry involving knowledge sharing and learning. Working closely with their university partners affords biotechnology firms the opportunity to successfully develop licensed inventions and gain access to novel scientific and technological discoveries. These factors may…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Universities, Entrepreneurship, Predictor Variables
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Lowegren, Marie; Bengtsson, Lars – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
There have been few studies on the long-term performance of university spin-offs (USOs). This paper builds on previous empirical research into the performance of USOs and on the resource- based model of USOs. Several research issues are addressed including, in particular, the long-term performance of Swedish USOs, the distribution of the main…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
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Dagli, Gokmen; Silman, Fatos; Birol, Cem – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2009
In order to reach goals and continue the ongoing learning process, like other organizations, universities also need the effective use of knowledge management. Knowledge management is an ongoing process and it has to be organized in a manner that is always open to new ideas. In universities where research and development studies play an important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Knowledge Management, Qualitative Research
Rosales, Laura Leal – Journal of Research Administration, 2010
In 2001, the Texas state legislature created the Texas Excellence Fund (TEF) and the University Research Fund (URF) with the purpose of supporting institutional excellence and research capacity at general academic institutions. During the 2002-2003 biennium, participating Texas public universities received revenues from these funds (Legislative…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Universities, Educational Finance, Institutional Characteristics
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Riviezzo, Angelo; Napolitano, Maria Rosaria – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
This paper examines the diffusion of entrepreneurial activities among Italian universities, the evolution of the organizational models implemented to facilitate such activities and the commitment of the universities to the Third Mission of social and economic development. As previous analyses have shown, Italian universities have only recently…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Scientific Research, Entrepreneurship, Longitudinal Studies