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- Formation, structure and performance of academic spin-off companies
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Ireland
- David E. Allnutt
Axia Limited, USA
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Business Strategy Consultant, UK
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Innovation America, USA
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Attorney at Law, Patent and Licensing Causes, USA
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Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
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Staffordshire University, UK
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Second University of Naples, Italy
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Higher Education-Business Forum, Poland
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Business-Higher Education Forum, USA
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Jönköping University, Sweden
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University College Dublin, Ireland
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Intellectual Asset Management Corp., USA, and CSEM, Switzerland
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Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, Canada
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Western Kentucky University, USA
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University of Sydney, Australia
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Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
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University of Essex, UK
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École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, France
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Drexel University, USA
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Technological Institute of Crete, Greece
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Oxford, UK
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University of Brighton, UK
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National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan
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Knowledge and Development Foundation, Spain
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Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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University of Tartu, Estonia
- Professor Hebe Vessuri
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Venezuela
- Dr Mary Lindenstein Walshok
University of California at San Diego
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Consultant, UK
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University of York, UK
December 2009 ISSUE (VOL 23, NO 6)
420 Monitor
A bimonthly round-up of developments worldwide
423
The value of client perceptions in university strategic planning: an
empirical research study
Salvador del Barrio-García and Teodoro Luque-Martínez
437
Networking industry and academia: evidence from FUSION projects in Ireland
Simon Stephens and George Onofrei
445
Evolution of Italian universities’ rules for spin-offs: the usefulness
of formal regulations
Elisa Salvador
463
Between
scientific playground and industrial workbench
Gabi Kaffka
473
Economic gardening through entrepreneurship education: a service-learning
approach
David E. Desplaces, Fred Wergeles and Patrick McGuigan
485 Calendar
486 Index to Volume 23, 2009
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Title:
The value of client perceptions in university strategic planning: an
empirical research study
Author(s): Salvador del Barrio-García and Teodoro
Luque-Martínez
Abstract: Given the normative changes in higher education at European,
national and regional levels, together with social, economic, demographic
and technological developments, universities need to adopt a client-oriented
approach and to make this client orientation an integral component of
their strategic planning process. The university’s ‘clients’ should
thus be involved in its strategic planning. This paper demonstrates
how an importance–performance analysis applied to the perceptions of
different groups of clients and stakeholders about the institution can
be an effective tool in this regard. The proposed methodology will assist
managers, and those responsible for university planning, to diagnose
the internal situation of the institution by building matrices of points
of excellence and deficiencies. In illustrating the effectiveness of
this methodology, the authors stress the need for higher education institutions
to move from a product orientation, based on the notion that the institution
is best able to decide what its clients need, to a client orientation,
based on knowledge of who its clients are and on a detailed investigation
of their needs and interests.
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Title:
Networking industry and academia: evidence from FUSION projects in Ireland
Author(s): Simon Stephens and George Onofrei
Abstract: Graduate development programmes such as FUSION continue
to be seen by policy makers, higher education institutions and small
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as primary means of strengthening
higher education–business links and in turn improving the match between
graduate output and the needs of industry. This paper provides evidence
from case studies. The findings indicate that the practical application
of academic principles in real-world settings provides a useful learning
vehicle for academics, graduates and SMEs. Key success factors and strategies
for overcoming obstacles emerged from the case studies. In light of
these findings, the authors make tentative recommendations to aid the
future delivery of similar programmes.
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Title:
Evolution of Italian universities’ rules for spin-offs: the usefulness
of formal regulations
Author(s): Elisa Salvador
Abstract: Spin-off firms may be seen as a key mechanism for the external
transmission of knowledge developed at universities. The proliferation
of academic spin-offs in recent years has led universities to develop
specific rules for the regulation and management of the spin-off process.
This paper draws on the Italian experience. More than fifty Italian
universities issued spin-off regulations between 2001 and 2008. The
author looks at the reasons why Italian universities have decided to
issue these specific regulations to control the research spin-off phenomenon,
assesses the similarities and differences between the regulations of
various universities and examines whether and to what extent the regulations
are useful.
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Title:
Between
scientific playground and industrial workbench
Author(s): Gabi Kaffka
Abstract: The focus of this article is on the impact of cultural
influences in academic knowledge transfer (KT). This aspect of the KT
process was studied at Dutch and German technical universities. The
analysis shows that professional values and identities play an important
role in academic KT. Administrators in university KT offices were found
to be influenced by values such as efficiency and profitability, like
their counterparts in the private industry. At the same time, the KT
personnel in both countries shared traditional academic values with
the academic staff. With this ability to understand the interests of
both the private sector and the academics, KT personnel at universities
have taken on a bridging role in mediating between the non-profit interests
of academia and the profit interest of external parties. It is argued
that, due to the increasingly complex legal and administrative processes
involved in transferring knowledge to external partners, KT managers
are adapting to a functional niche in modern academic organizations
by fulfilling this important ‘bridging role’.
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Title:
Economic gardening through entrepreneurship education: a service-learning
approach
Author(s): David E. Desplaces, Fred Wergeles and
Patrick McGuigan
Abstract: This article outlines the implementation of a service-learning
approach in an entrepreneurship programme using an ‘economic gardening’
strategy. Economic Gardening through Service-Learning (EGS-L) is an
approach to economic development that helps local businesses and students
grow through a facilitated learning process. Learning is made possible
by appealing to the action orientation of entrepreneurs and supplying
students with a real laboratory in which to implement, test and experience
theory. Economic gardening effectively strengthens businesses in the
community and promotes community awareness by bringing businesses, students,
academics and community leaders together in a receptive and proactive
environment. The authors draw on first-hand experience from programmes
at various institutions and include in their discussion some preliminary
results with regard to civic attitudes.
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