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Calderón-Hernández, Gregorio; Jiménez-Zapata, Yudy Andrea; Serna-Gomez, Héctor Mauricio – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2020
The present study contributes elements to the literature for the understanding of those institutional factors of organizations that promote the creation of spin-offs in universities. Institutional barriers to spin-off creation within universities are addressed from a qualitative perspective. The study was carried out in Colombia, a country with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Educational Innovation, Universities
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Alarcón, Cristina – European Education, 2015
This paper analyzes the activities, members, and effects of an inter-American expert network for the diffusion of psychometric knowledge, specifically of standardized aptitude testing for university admission in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Within the framework of educational transfer studies, the role of international,…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, College Admission, Standardized Tests, Aptitude Tests
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Sperandio, Jill; Hobson, Daphne; Douglas, Roger; Pruitt, Ralph – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
Countries reforming their education systems frequently look outside of their borders for best practice and seek to import policies, practices and programs that appear to incorporate it. In so doing they appear to contribute to the increasing globalization of education. Scholars of comparative education examining this process have focused on the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Global Approach, Educational Change, Foreign Countries