This paper highlights a number of key issues in the development and execution of joint university-industry engineering projects. Government funding reductions have lead to decreased support of university research and economic forces have driven corporations to reduce or eliminate internal R&D centers. These are two driving factors behind the renewed ties between universities and industries. In ...

3 4 Nina Schroeder, Che-Sheng Chung, Chein-Hung Chen, Chung-Lin Liao and Wen Chang 5 6 Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, 128 Academia Road, Sec. 2, Nangang, 7 Taipei 11529, Taiwan, Republic of China 8 2 The Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, 128 Academia Road, Sec. 2, Nangang, 9 Taipei 11529, Taiwan, Republic of China 10 11 12 Running title: Role of CD98 in vaccinia virus...

This paper investigates whether the widespread awarding of faculty merit pay at a large public university accurately reflects productivity. We show that pairwise voting on a quality standard by a committee can in theory be consistent with observed allocation patterns. However, the data indicate only nominal adherence to a quality standard. Departments with more severe compression issues are mor...

As a group of scientists working within academia, we are concerned by the implications of your feature suggesting that industry should stop funding external research. Universities are one of the best types of institution to carry out nutrition research because academic researchers are interested in finding out the truth. Would it be better if all universities refused to work with the food indus...

INTRODUCTION Many policy makers and researchers consider knowledge transfer between academia and industry as one of the most promising measures to strengthen economic development. The idea of linking academia and industry is not new. Back in 1910 research universities were established, which strongly emphasized industry-related research as part of their activities and were funded by enterprises...

Model-driven architecture (MDA) is a relatively new software development paradigm that advocates the use of modeling throughout the software development lifecycle. This paradigm appears to be gaining validity in the industry as several large companies are investing resources to develop tools that support MDA. However, little is known about the diffusion of MDA in an academic setting. A survey o...

Academia has a long tradition of structuring itself around academic subjects, often epitomized through architectural manifestations such as individual buildings and whole campi. These materializations serve as sites of research and education, but also serve to describe the university as whole as well as its institutional parts, their definitions and their interrelations. This description goes d...

While the concepts of organizational learning and knowledge management are essential in industry, relatively little attention has been devoted to how these same concepts can be applied to higher education. Despite the ready availability of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and the increasing familiarity of faculty and students with these tools, many universities seem reluctant to release the...