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The Millennium Village Project, a partnership of academia, business, and UN agencies, aims to show how these goals can be achieved in even the poorest communities in the world.
In academia, citing the work of others is not a mere courtesy; it is a normative requirement.
Indeed, citation data have become the vital statistics of academia, with researchers routinely including IF data and h-indexes – along with raw citation scores generated from sources like Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (Garfield’s database), Elsevier’s Scopus, and Google Scholar – on their curricula vitae.
The problem is not limited to
academia.
By emphasizing Party control – through a crackdown on SOEs, government opponents, and critics in the media and
academia
– Xi seeks to maximize his ability to impose economic reforms while minimizing the risk of a challenge from conservative forces.
Establishing the ICT and imbuing it with legitimacy will require the support of civil society, academia, and the general public.
Perhaps principles and practices widely used in
academia
– such as peer review, competitive processes for funding research, transparency about conflicts of interests and financing sources, and requirements to publish underlying data – should be adapted and applied more widely to the world of think tanks, websites, and the media.
Fact-checking websites appraising the veracity of claims made by public figures are a step in the right direction, and have some similarities to peer review in
academia.
However, the skills that are now required outside
academia
are changing so rapidly that universities may struggle to marry the generic cognitive skills taught in the classroom – such as critical thinking, analytical reasoning, problem solving, and writing – with the professional expertise that is increasingly acquired in the workplace.
The key is effective multi-stakeholder partnerships that bring together all major players in the development process, including governments, bilateral and multilateral development agencies, national and international development finance institutions, the private sector, civil society, and even
academia.
Nevertheless, the traditional doors separating
academia
from industry are being quietly dismantled - sometimes even smashed down.
Scientists in both
academia
and industry can still be trusted to do their work with honesty.
The fashionable call for ever-closer union between academia, industry and government ignores a vital element of the scientific enterprise.
Many large pharmaceutical companies are now espousing the virtue of these strategies, but will they work if adopted inconsistently by the industry and not at all by
academia
and funders?
Experts in government, industry, academia, and elsewhere agree that a long list of questions needs to be addressed if we are to develop nanotechnology as safely as possible.
We need a firm commitment from all sides: private businesses, academia, civil society, and international organizations and NGOs.
The SDSN mobilizes scientific and technical expertise from academia, civil society, and the private sector in support of sustainable-development problem solving at local, national, and global scales.
Through this new partnership of communities, governments, businesses, and academia, the current crisis could yet mark the start of regional recovery and development.
The tsunami that so devastated much of Asia has provided an opportunity for all key players – in government, industry, academia, the media, and civil society – to look at Asia anew, at both the challenges and the opportunities that have arisen from Asia’s resurgence.
Moreover, in both policymaking and academia, active debate is indispensable to sorting good ideas from bad ones.
In Europe, the percent of women on corporate boards remains in single digits, as is true of the top ranks of government and
academia.
Indeed, they are as important as ever – and not only in
academia.
Toward this end, the Education Commission – which includes leaders from government, academia, business, and economics – just published a roadmap and a proposed global budget to provide universal, high-quality primary and secondary education.
Either directly or through compliant surrogates, these two countries have devoted billions of dollars to increasing their global influence through media, culture, think tanks, academia, and other spheres.
For its own part, China has exported money and people to Australia, from the business world to
academia.
The Commission is chaired by Sir John Vickers, the Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, which in British
academia
is about as good as it gets.
Success requires not only understanding the limitations of traditional measurements, but also developing a curious and self-critical workforce that can collaborate with partners in academia, industry, the public sector, and other national statistical institutes to develop more appropriate methods.
The current consensus blames the “elites” – in academia, media, and business – for becoming so caught up in their relatively cosmopolitan and connected world that they failed to listen carefully to less educated and connected groups.
The easiest would be to spread the money around to scientists in academia, product-development partnerships, biotech firms, and larger pharmaceutical companies as opportunities arise.
The New Brain Drain in ScienceDUBAI – In December 2013, the Nobel laureate physicist Peter Higgs told The Guardian that if he were seeking a job in
academia
today, “I don’t think I would be regarded as productive enough.”
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