entrepreneurship has arguably emerged over the last two decades as the most robust economic force the world has ever experienced. with its expansion, has come a similar increase in the field of entrepreneurship education. the recent growth and developments in the curricula and programs devoted to entrepreneurship and new-venture creation have been remarkable. the number of colleges and universi...

As universities and research hospitals move increasingly toward translational research and encouragement of entrepreneurship, more attention must be paid to management of conflicts of interest (COIs) if the public trust is to be maintained. Here, we describe COI policies at two institutions that aim to structure an academic environment that encourages innovation while protecting academic values.

One of the latest and most controversial areas of science is biotechnology. Genetic engineering concerns with the manipulation of DNA molecules to modify plants, animals and other creatures. Scientists are now able to isolate a gene or genome in an animal or plant to another one, based on the traits they want to transfer. The movement of a gene from a living creature to another one is called th...

the purpose of this study was to examine whether the frequency of breakfast consumption was related to academic performance in healthy korean adolescents.we analyzed data from the seventh korea youth risk behavior web-based survey conducted in 2011, in which 75,643 adolescents from school grades 7-12 participated. we assessed the association between the frequency of breakfast consumption (per w...

with respect to many problems in rural areas such as poverty, inequality, migration, vulnerability and unemployment, the rural entrepreneurship is of great importance. doubtless entrepreneurship can increase the level of employment and income and play an important role for sustainable development in rural areas. in this article, through a behavioral approach and based on a procedural model indi...

The translation of medically relevant academic inventions that could transform public health has been notoriously difficult, stemming largely from cultural differences been academia and industry. New initiatives to kindle academic entrepreneurship and establish stronger public/private partnerships are helping to align these differences and accelerating the translation of promising new therapies.

BACKGROUND Quality-of-care indicators have been developed for patients hospitalized with heart failure. However, little is known about current rates of conformity with these indicators or their variability across hospitals. METHODS Data from 81 142 admissions occurring between July 1, 2002, and December 31, 2003, at 223 academic and non-academic hospitals in the United States participating in...