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Dynamic Processes of Scientific Collaboration: The Evolution of the U.S. University Inventor
Clements, Margaret M. - 2009
This study examines U.S. university inventors as dynamic actors in the evolution of scientific research collaboration. At the epicenter of the real world processes that translate university research into usable technologies, university inventors play an important role in shaping the complex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475820
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Against the Grain: A Study of North Carolina's Plan to Provide College to its Prison Inmates
Contardo, Jeanne Bayer - 2008
This study uses theories of organizational resiliency and distributed structure to analyze the development and maintenance of postsecondary correctional education (PSCE) in North Carolina. The study uses bounded case study methodology to focus on the partnership between the North Carolina...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450814
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Tuition fees and equal access to higher education in Germany and the EU: An analysis from a law and economics perspective
Ringe, Dorothea Charlotte - 2009
. Even with tuition fees they subsidise every place at a university. If mobile students have a right to equal treatment and … pay the same amount of tuition fees than domestic students, which is currently the case in Germany and in the EU, State … governments have an incentive to reduce their investment in higher education. In this case, the number of students studying in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449667
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459022
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459069
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459219
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Bildungsbeteiligung, Studiendauer und Bildungsrenditen an deutschen Hochschulen : eine mikroökonomische Analyse über heterogene Agenten im Kontext der Studiengebührenpolitik
Amann, Roland A. - 2006
possible impacts of this policy on students' behavior. In particular, the author analyzes the expected change in enrollment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471740
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Five essays on early education and workplace training
Mühler, Grit - 2010
With its recently announced strategy "Europe 2020", the European Union picks up two major challenges: transforming the economy into a knowledge society with innovation as the main driver of economic growth and cohering a population whose workforce is shrinking and aging. Two benchmarks of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448905
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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand
Department of Petroleum Engineering
,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 … students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during 2006/7 saw a sudden and substantial growthin industry employment … students reduced to less than 10% of those taking the course. This loss in both student numbers and staff at the same time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434850
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Retention: rhetoric or realistic agendas for the future of higher education
Rowley, Jennifer - 2003
Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in International Journal of Educational Management, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
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