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From Academia to Society: the Commercialization of Research
Science article: The Many Ways of Making Academic Research Pay OffResearch universities are under growing pressure to play a more active, entrepreneurial role in commercial innovation. They increasingly regard tech transfer as a prerequisite for luring top...
Business Schools and Big Data
Two articles from the FT discuss potential uses of big data by business schools:Business schools’ big data revolution Business schools should embrace big data
Ebook Trends in 2013
E book prices continue to fall:In the past few months, pricing of ebooks and issues of competition are coming into sharper focus. Changes are coming much faster in the publishing world today—prices for titles are dropping and we are seeing the development of new...
9 Facts about Top Journals in Economics
Two UC Berkeley researchers ( David Card & Stefano DellaVigna ) have released this NBER paper: Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics."How has publishing in top economics journals changed since 1970? Using a data set that combines...
170 billion tweets archived
The Library of Congress has "an archive of approximately 170 billion tweets and growing. The volume of tweets the Library receives each day has grown from 140 million beginning in February 2011 to nearly half a billion tweets each day as of October 2012."Click to view...
Price Tag of an MBA
Article from CNN Money:Stanford MBA price tag hits $185K: Highest in the world
Social Media Report 2012
Released by Nielsen, State of the Media: Social Media Report 2012.Click below for the full report.
Undergrads and IT – 2012 survey
EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research has released its annual survey of undergraduates' attitude towards technology in Higher Education.Click on the image for the full infographic.Read the entire report.
ORCID has officially launched
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an initiative started in 2010 aimed at "providing a registry of persistent unique identifiers for researchers and scholars and automating linkages to research objects such as publications, grants, and...
How today’s higher education faculty use social media
Pearson and the Babson Survey Research Group have released a survey on higher education faculty use social media. View the whole survey here (free registration required)Highlights from the Executive Summary:Young faculty members use social media at rates...
Cite feature in Google Scholar
Scholar now offers the ability to format the articles in APA, MLA or Chicago style in one click.To copy a formatted citation, click on the “Cite” link below a search result ( or click on More as the screenshot below illustrates) and select from the available...
2012 Nobel Prize in Economics
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobelhas been awarded jointly toAlvin E. Roth & Lloyd S. Shapley "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design"Alvin E. Alvin E. Roth Harvard Business School,...