We examine whether the post forecast revision drift is attributable to investors’ underreaction to industry-wide and/or firm-specific earnings news in analysts’ forecast revisions. We find a large drift associated with industry-wide earnings news but, on average, no drift associated with firm-specific earnings news. Consistent with the functional fixation hypothesis, we show empirically that th...

This study builds on the economics and organization literatures to explore whether and how institutions and organizational structure complement or substitute each other to create specific spaces of alignment where specific individual actors' motivations co-exist. Focusing on university-industry collaborations, the study examines whether and how different axes of alignment of university and indu...

The situation when the number of the students and the popularity of the engineering education in general and IT education in particular is not increasing dramatically due to the fact that there exists an opinion that engineering education is complex and time-consuming from one side and that the graduates are not sufficiently prepared for the industry from another, requires the University to per...

This is an analysis of the computer generated feedback from an industry certification course, as taught as part of a university unit. A method for extracting useful information from the available course evaluation data is proposed, and the method is shown to be effective and reasonable. Conclusions for the particular unit are drawn. In particular it is shown that the unit was successful in givi...

Time to market, competition and manufacturing costs are only some of the reasons why concurrent engineering is an increasingly used methodology for product development. The present paper deals with a case study of universityindustry cooperation to develop an improved part for an automotive application, with three main concerns: economic, performance and environmental. Four universities gathered...

The authors would like to thank Gustavo Crespi for helpful suggestion in the development of the econometric analysis. We would also like to thank

Virtually every university in the US and overseas has seen a significant increase in demand for information technology (IT) courses and programs in the last 10 years (Greenspan, 1999; Monaghan, 1998; Ross, 1998). At the source of this demand is an ever-growing need for qualified IT professionals in most companies, whether the companies are in technology industries or not (Alexander, 1999; Andel...

Nowadays, companies are spending more time and money to enhance their innovation ability to respond to the increasing market competition. The pressure makes companies seek help from external knowledge, especially those from academia. Unfortunately, there is a gap between knowledge seekers (companies) and suppliers (researchers) due to the scattered and asymmetric information. To facilitate shar...

This paper forms an introduction to this issue, the contents of which arose directly or indirectly from a conference in May 2001 on Corruption of scientific integrity?--The commercialisation of academic science. The introduction, in recent decades, of business culture and values into universities and research institutions is incompatible with the openness which scientific and all academic pursu...

University research centers can be beneficial to industrial firms by providing firms with a number of relationship alternatives that facilitate the advancement of knowledge and new technologies. This multi-method field study indicates that larger more mechanistic firms especially those in resource intense industrial sectors use knowledge transfer and research support relationships to build comp...