It is a privilege to be invited to The Australian National University. ANU has had a long association with India. Sir John Crawford, one of your former Chancellors, played a key role in the 1960s in making the green revolution possible in India, and we are grateful for that. Few institutions around the world have a centre dedicated to research on South Asia. This University has set an example b...

An African Vice-Chancellors' Regional Food Systems Dialogue was hosted with the aim to provide a multi-stakeholder platform for stakeholders explore various existing and emerging approaches that have potential deliver sustainable solutions at scale encourage collaborative actions directly transform Africa's agriculture food systems. Various system experts leaders from policy research institutio...

This paper deals with the influence that New Public Management (NPM) mechanisms have on research performance. Using a large dataset of German university research units, it can be shown that both greater internal hierarchy (especially. "strong chancellors") as well as greater operative flexibility for the researchers themselves increase research performance. Some of the variables, including the ...

Most public Universities across the world have reported suboptimal financial performance compared to private universities. The poor can be attributed management practices. sound practices require institutions robust internal control systems. However, there are limited empirical research findings regarding relationship between systems and in universities Kenya. general objective of study was est...

A small group of around 40 people came together at the Chancellors Conference Centre in Manchester for the Ontologies Workshop, chaired by Alan Rector and Robert Stevens. The workshop was, rather strangely, spread over 2 half days. In hindsight, this programme worked very well as it gave people the opportunity to chat over a drink on the Saturday evening and share ideas, before launching into t...

OBJECTIVE To identify the prevalence, characteristics, and compensation of members of the boards of directors of healthcare industry companies who hold academic appointments as leaders, professors, or trustees. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING US healthcare companies publicly traded on the NASDAQ or New York Stock Exchange in 2013. PARTICIPANTS 3434 directors of pharmaceutical, biote...