background: empirical inculcation is vital for producing quality research professionals and upon realizing the increasing demand of emerging scientific research professionals, national academy of young scientist (nays) launched its science for youth (s4y) program in pakistan with its emphasis on empiricism. methods: s4y team was galvanized to undertake this task and different scientific activit...

Utility value is associated with positive learning outcomes in science and is often used to motivate engagement in the sciences, but less is known about what influences its development and maintenance, particularly during the critical middle school years. Using multinomial regression applied to longitudinal data from approximately 2600 middle-school students, we test the relationship of science...

centuries (C.B. Schmitt); science in the early Royal Society (M.D. Hall); science and religion in the seventeenth century (P.M. Rattansi); the growth of Netherlands science in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (W. D. Hackmann); the rise and fall of Scottish science (J. R. R. Christie); scientific careers in eighteenth-century France (R. Hahn); the development of a professional care...

Science Parks provide an environment that incubates high technology industry. As such, the Hsinchu Science-based industrial Park (HSIP) has been promoting region’s growth and integrating related industries, resulting in the increase in the nation’s competitiveness. Using Entropy, Moore’s measuring techniques, the structure changes of human resources, sales, paid-in capital, and employees of six...

The paper is an exploratory study of science parks in the United States. It models the history of science parks as the diffusion of an innovation that was adopted at a rapid and increasing rate in the early 1980s, and since then at a decreased rate. It models the growth of a science park once established, showing significant effects on growth for the proximity to universities and other resource...

Charting significant growth in science production over the 20th century in four European Union member states, this neo-institutional analysis describes the development and current state of universities and research institutes that bolster Europe's position as a key region in global science. On-going internationalization and Europeanization of higher education and science has been accompanied by...