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Provasi, Giancarlo; Squazzoni, Flaminio; Tosio, Beatrice – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
This paper looks at eight comparative case-studies on academic entrepreneurs in life sciences conducted in Europe in 2008. The interviewees were selected from the KEINS database that lists all academic inventors from Italy, France, Sweden and the Netherlands who have one or more patent applications registered at the European Patent Office,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies
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Smith-Doerr, Laurel – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2008
Many graduate programmes in science now require courses in ethics. However, little is known about their reception or use. Using websites and interviews, this essay examines ethics requirements in the field of biosciences in three countries (the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy) between 2000 and 2005. Evidence suggests that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientists, Ethics, Ethical Instruction
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Ferreri, Carla; Chatgilialoglu, Chryssostomos; Ferreri, Rosaria – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
Lipidomics is an emerging discipline in life sciences related to the lipid metabolism of living organisms. In the last decade chemical and biological research has attributed very important roles to membrane phospholipids in relationship to free radical stress and metabolic situations. An entrepreneurial initiative for diagnostic tools and health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metabolism, Biological Sciences, Nutrition
Kofoid, Charles Atwood – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1910
This report is based in large part upon a personal examination of the fresh water and marine biological stations of Europe, made in the summers of 1908 and 1909. Its purpose is to put in convenient form for reference an account of the history, organization, equipment, and work of the various stations of Europe, and to indicate their relations to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biological Sciences, Marine Biology, Water