The multiple faces of the entrepreneurial university: a review of the prevailing theoretical approaches

The Journal of Technology Transfer - The importance and the definition of an entrepreneurial university (EU), together with the factors that lead to its existence, have been widely discussed in the...     

Behavioural Response to a Sudden Health Risk: Dengue and Educational Outcomes in Colombia

Epidemics tend to have a debilitating influence on the lives of directly afflicted families. However, the presence of an epidemic can also change the behaviour and outcomes of those not directly affected. This paper makes use of a short, sharp, unexpected epidemic to examine the behavioural response of the public to a sudden shift in the perceived risk to one’s health and mortality. Our analysis finds that unafflicted school students change their behaviour substantially, affecting important life outcomes. In particular, we find that between 1.9 and 4.7 fewer students, out of a typical cohort of 47 pupils, sit their school leaving examination for every additional 10 cases of severe Dengue per 10 000 inhabitants in a municipality. We rule out several possible mechanisms, leaving an increase in the salience of the disease’s risks as a plausible explanation for our findings.     

耳廓的同一认定研究

目的研究耳廓观测指标的变化特征,提出利用耳廓特征识别点进行个体同一认定的研究方法,为法医学个体识别,及对视频图片中的个体进行同一认定,提供一种科学、准确、简便易行的方法。方法通过对19岁至22岁的汉族成人拍摄耳廓侧位图像,选取148人照片中的相应指标进行观测,数据收集,经SPSS统计软件处理,分析各种因素对测量结果的影响,计算出各指标识别能力及两批照片各指标之间的差值,最终得出各指标差值的参考值范围。结果 10项观测指标经统计检验分析,最终保留6项指标,重复测量结果稳定。各指标的变异系数相差不大,结果稳定可靠。结论通过制定6项观测指标差值的参考范围,确定指标是否同一,最终认定照片中耳廓是否属于同一个体的方法准确可行。     

Culture on the Rise: How and Why Cultural Membership Promotes Democratic Politics

Selectively using Tocqueville, many social scientists suggest that civic participation increases democracy. We go beyond this neo-Tocquevillian model in three ways. First, to capture broader political and economic transformations, we consider different types of participation; results change if we analyze separate participation arenas. Some are declining, but a dramatic finding is the rise of arts and culture. Second, to assess impacts of participation, we study more dimensions of democratic politics, including distinct norms of citizenship and their associated political repertoires. Third, by analyzing global International Social Survey Programme and World Values Survey data, we identify dramatic subcultural differences: the Tocquevillian model is positive, negative, or zero in different subcultures and contexts that we explicate.     

Rule growth and government effectiveness: why it takes the capacity to learn and coordinate to constrain rule growth

This paper asks whether strong bureaucracies can effectively constrain the continuously growing stock of rules in modern democracies through organizational coordination and learning. To answer this question, the paper analyzes the growth of rule stocks in the areas of environmental policy and social policy in 23 OECD countries over the period between 1976 and 2005. To do so, it develops a new measure of rule growth based on the content of laws and regulations rather than their length. The analysis highlights that effective bureaucracies are indeed better able to contain rule growth in these areas than weak bureaucracies. Since rules have to be implemented, countries suffering from bureaucratic capacity and quality constraints thus appear to be stuck in an implementation deficit trap. Appropriate implementation is not only inherently more challenging for countries with weak public administrations, but the body of rules to be implemented also tends to grow quicker in these countries.     

文化新世纪与人类新千年

人类文化的发展,从宏观上看已经历了自然文化和科学文化这两个文化千年.在21世纪的今天,人类极有希望建构以生命为核心的文化新千年,从而实现人类文明的整体性跃迁.     

建设资源节约环境友好型社会的几点思考

大量数据表明,我国的经济发展面临资源、环境的制约。破解资源环境瓶颈制约,必须以科学发展观为指导,依靠科技进步与创新,建设资源节约环境友好型社会。