We examine the outside director selection process using unique data on appointments of academic directors. Overall, we find academic directors tend to be appointed by small- and mid-cap firms expanding their boards. However, we find important differences in both the factors influencing academic...

To be academically literate in today's world is a challenge not only for international students, but also for academics and researchers, who need specific language support to keep on with proceedings in their discipline and write research papers in English. The course discussed in the paper was...

In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the extra-academic environment in the context of academics' work. Insights into the status of this...