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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
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Picard, M. Dane – Journal of Geological Education, 1988
Recounts the adventures of a journey taken through France and Italy. Makes an analogy of this trip to that of the one Charles Dickens took in 1844. Describes silicified horizons of the southern Paris Basin, moraines, outcrops, and "Hoodoos." (RT)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Earth Science, Experiential Learning, Field Instruction