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RSVP Now to Debate MOOCs Impact in the Developing World
June 21, 2013 Editor 0
Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and many more top name universities are launching Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to hundreds, and hundred of thousands of students. Often prompted by entrepreneurial professors and private companies, the race is on to open up higher education to the online masses. Yet university professors are already entering into a schizophrenic relationship […]
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First Biomedical Engineering Innovators Summer School gets Underway
November 21, 2012 Editor 0
ECA Press Release 130/2012 Kampala, 7 August 2012 (ECA) – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Makerere University, Kyambogo University and the Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI) opened the first ever Biomedical Engineering “Innovators Summer School for 2012” (ISS-2012) that runs this week from 6-10 August 2012 in Kampala, Uganda.
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SA has a lot to learn on university–industry collaboration – Pandor
October 4, 2012 Editor 0
South Africa has a lot to learn from Japan as far as university–industry collaboration is concerned, outgoing Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday. Speaking at the South Africa – Japan space science colloquium, held at the University of Pretoria, she said South Africa had been slow in supporting spin-off companies and commercialising […]
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Business model innovation and competitive imitation: The case of sponsor-based business models
September 13, 2012 Editor 0
Author Information1Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.2Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.Email: Feng Zhu (fzhu@marshall.usc.edu)*Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808, U.S.A.
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Knowledge creation in universities and some related factors
August 13, 2012 Editor 0
Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical picture of the concept of knowledge creation and then investigate the effects on it of such variables as social capital and organizational culture.
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