Revisiting the traditional tripartite mission of Higher Education Institutions, a gap was found in the literature concerning the role played by digitalization in fostering civic universities. Based on a bibliometric analysis, a new taxonomy of Hybrid Civic Universities is proposed, in which open...

This paper describes the construction of a microlevel database on knowledge creation by higher education institutions (KC-HEI), accompanying the Global Knowledge InputOutput database (KIO, Davies et al., 2023). The database was created as part of Project Rethink GCS. KC-HEI links PATSTAT...

We analyze the role of universities or, more generally higher education institutions (HEIs), in terms of their regional and international embeddedness for regional knowledge base renewal. We assume that the introduction of radical patents in the sense of novel technological combinations...

Relatively poor transfer of knowledge from higher education to the market remains a concern in Europe, universities being involved in at most 10% of all patented inventions. We examine the role of university funding in patenting, addressing three key research gaps: (i) the limited,...

This study applies the Technology Acceptance Model to examine user acceptance of emerging technologies - specifically LINE and Google Translate- -for language learning. A multimodal interactive teaching program, combining cooperative learning and problem-based learning, was implemented at a...