As the interviewees in EMBO reports’ recent multi-person interview on the future of research universities made clear, universities continue to play a crucial role in the future of knowledge-based economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although universities have also played a vital role in the invention and success of industrybased capitalism in the preceding centuries (Nelson, ...

As the interviewees in EMBO reports’ recent multi-person interview on the future of research universities made clear, universities continue to play a crucial role in the future of knowledge-based economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although universities have also played a vital role in the invention and success of industrybased capitalism in the preceding centuries (Nelson, ...

There are a variety of ranking systems for universities throughout the different continents of the world. The majority of the world ranking systems have paid special attention toward evaluation of universities and higher education institutions at the national and international level. This paper tries to study the similarities and status of top Asian universities in the list of top 200 universit...

The paper presents the efforts and results of a large consortium of European Industries, Research Centers and Universities involved in an EU research project named OMASES in the field of Power System Dynamic Security Assessment (DSA). The overall structure of an on-line DSA tool including TSA – Transient Stability Assessment, VSA – Voltage Stability Assessment, TS – Training Simulator and MS – ...

Universities everywhere are being forced to carefully reconsider their role in society and to evaluate the relationships with their various constituencies, stakeholders, and communities. In this article, stakeholder analysis is put forward as a tool to assist universities in classifying stakeholders and determining stakeholder salience. Increasingly universities are expected to assume a third m...

introduction: higher education administrators face with problems such as financial pressures, rapidly changing environment, competition with other higher education institutions to achieve higher academic rank and research, attracting students and more prone to grant more autonomy to faculty members .to overcome mentioned problems ,they can use methods such as; innovation in curriculum, support ...

market structure is one of the most important characteristics of every industry. although, there exist different indices such as concentration, economies of scale, entry of firms, product differentiation, etc. for the evaluation of market structure, but most of the studies in the subject have used only one of these indices (usually concentration). in this study, by application of fuzzy inferenc...