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Novoa, Mauricio – Design and Technology Education, 2018
This article elaborates on design research in a final capstone industrial design studio unit and on the application of outcomes over eight years within a School of Engineering and its recent incarnation as School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics. Research and curriculum innovation linked students to the new global design-driven innovation…
Descriptors: Industrial Arts, Design, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education
Nordholm, Daniel – Education Inquiry, 2016
This article reports findings from a case study carried out in a Swedish municipality focusing on a school-to-school collaboration established to support implementation of a nation-wide curriculum. The aim was to study how ideas for improvements in this temporary organisation were transferred to the local schools. The findings presented are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Institutional Cooperation, Case Studies
Hartong, Sigrid; Nikolai, Rita – Comparative Education Review, 2017
This article contributes to a growing body of research on global policy transfer and flows in education, arguing that a large number of such research has too often viewed nation-states as uniform policy containers, focusing mainly on national-level policy changes or using binary understandings of reform adaptation versus reform resistance.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Technology Transfer, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Cattapan, Paolo; Passarelli, Mariacarmela; Petrone, Michele – Industry and Higher Education, 2012
This paper contributes to the literature on innovation brokerage by analysing the effects of brokerage activities on the innovation and growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The authors provide a detailed description of the Technology Transfer Service (TTS), credited as a European best-practice innovation broker, at Area Science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Small Businesses, Innovation, Technology Transfer
Academic Knowledge Brokering in Local Policy Spaces: Negotiating and Implementing Dynamic Idea Types
Weakley, Sarah; Waite, David – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2023
Background: Academic researchers are occupying more varied roles as both knowledge producers and knowledge brokers in policymaking spaces beyond the national level. As the local arena presents different dimensions to the knowledge-policy-practice nexus, an assessment of the interaction of evidence and policy at this scale is warranted. Aims and…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Researchers, Novices, Policy
Nyström, Monica Elisabeth; Hansson, Johan; Garvare, Rickard; Andersson-Bäck, Monica – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2015
This article investigates the role of locally based research and development units (R&Ds) focusing on health and social services. Nearly 300 local R&Ds are funded by the Swedish government with the intention to facilitate knowledge transfer and development of high quality and effective health and social care organisations. Based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Social Services, Older Adults
Hellin, Jon – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: New approaches to extension service delivery are needed that stimulate increased agricultural production, contribute to collective action and which also foster the emergence of agricultural innovation systems. Research in Peru and Mexico explores some of these new approaches. Design/methodology/approach: In both countries, a qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Rural Extension, Agricultural Production
Holligan, Chris – Scottish Educational Review, 2013
This paper contributes to our understanding of a supposed free-market in research, where knowledge-transfer is to government, which then brokers the evidence into professional fields. Education research contracts are put out to tender by Scottish Government and a constellation of factors constructing this phenomenon has epistemological and…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Neoliberalism, Universities, Foreign Countries
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
These proceedings contain the papers of the 12th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2015), October 24-26, 2015, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by Maynooth University, Ireland, and endorsed by the…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Computer Uses in Education, Learning Processes, Expertise
Formica, Piero – Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
The sustained phase of transition to economies characterised by considerable, and sometimes revolutionary, advances in science, technology and related industries, coupled with subsequent profound changes in economy and society, has increased the importance of the knowledge-intensive phases of production for value-creation. As enterprises, in fact,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Small Businesses, Business, Knowledge Management
Kramer, Desre M.; Cole, Donald C.; Leithwood, Kenneth – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2004
In workplace health interventions, engaging management and union decision makers is considered important for the success of the project, yet little research has described the process of making this happen. A case study of a knowledge-transfer process is presented to describe the practices and processes adopted by a knowledge broker who engaged…
Descriptors: Intervention, Foreign Countries, Occupational Safety and Health, Transfer of Training
Defense Conversion and Brokering Partnerships: A New Role for the University Research Administrator.
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Streeter, Richard B. – Research Management Review, 1995
Discussion of the changes in the university research administrator's role resulting from changes in university research funding patterns looks at how and why universities enter into research with industry, federal funding and defense conversion funding, and the experience of the University of South Florida with this process. The research…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Economic Change, Educational Trends, Federal Programs
Chambers, Gail S. – 1981
The regulation of the college merger process in New York, including its effects on a recent merger between private institutions, is examined. New York's higher education policy formation process and the laws and policies that make college mergers possible are considered. The merger of Eisenhower College and Rochester Institute of Technology…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Programs, Government School Relationship, Higher Education
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1979
The essential elements of the Texas Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) network are described and examined to determine where Texas is in terms of institutionalizing EBCE. First described are the identification of incentives for both institutional and individual participation in the statewide effort and the plans to communicate knowledge…
Descriptors: Career Education, Change Agents, Delivery Systems, Diffusion
Sedlacek, James R. – 1987
Seventy-seven Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking agricultural change agents from developing Central and South American countries responded to a questionnaire which sought perceptions of the roles in which the change agents felt they were involved and the roles for which they felt they were being trained. The agents were participating in training…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Developing Nations, Extension Agents, Foreign Countries