The Universities State Their Position

The medieval universities: their development and organisation

The position of cross-border and international academic mobility in the selected Iranian universities

Moving towards the entrepreneurial university is one of the key strategies to promote social responsibility and accountability of the university and achieve the goals of social change and sustainable development, and the entrepreneurial university is one of the important scenarios for effective participation of universities in the local, regional and national development process and strong pres...

Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?

We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect weakened in the 1980s and disappeared in the 1990s. We decompose this university fixed effect and fi...

Relationship between Health and Psychological Empowerment of the Librarians in the State Universities of Yazd (2016)

Background: Staff is the only sustainable competitive advantage of any organization; the success of the organization depends on the empowerment and health of the staff. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment and health of librarians in state universities of Yazd. Methods: This descriptive-analytic study was conducted among librarians wor...

Comparison between State Universities in Germany and the United States

Introduction The paper examines the capabilities of universities to rapidly build up and expand research capacities in new and emerging scientific fields following major scientific breakthroughs. Based on the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), developed in 1982 (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1986), and Buckminsterfullerenes (BUF), discovered in 1985 (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995), the paper inves...