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Translating PISA, Translating the World
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Addey, Camilla; Gorur, Radhika – Comparative Education, 2020
The OECD is extending the participation of low- and middle-income nations in its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). To explore how PISA can be made more relevant to these contexts, a pilot study, PISA for Development (PISA-D), was launched. Translating PISA into PISA-D required the development of instruments that had relevance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
PhD by Publication as an Argument for Innovation and Technology Transfer: With Emphasis on Africa
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Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. – Higher Education Quarterly, 2018
The contribution of African researchers to knowledge by means of scientific publications is low compared to other regions of the world. This paper presents an argument in favour of PhD by publication as a tool for innovation and technology transfer. The conception of PhD by publication used in this study is more suited for doctorates in science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Innovation, Technology Transfer
A New Approach for Analysing National Innovation Systems in Emerging and Developing Countries
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Seidel, Uwe; Muller, Lysann; Meier zu Kocker, Gerd; Filho, Guajarino de Araujo – Industry and Higher Education, 2013
This paper presents a tool for the indicator-based analysis of national innovation systems (ANIS). ANIS identifies the economic strengths and weaknesses of a country-wide, regional or local system and includes a comprehensive examination and evaluation of the status of existing innovation systems. The use of a particular form of expert interviews…
Descriptors: Innovation, Developing Nations, Interviews, Benchmarking
Agricultural Extension, Collective Action and Innovation Systems: Lessons on Network Brokering from Peru and Mexico
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Hellin, Jon – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: New approaches to extension service delivery are needed that stimulate increased agricultural production, contribute to collective action and which also foster the emergence of agricultural innovation systems. Research in Peru and Mexico explores some of these new approaches. Design/methodology/approach: In both countries, a qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Rural Extension, Agricultural Production
Academic Entrepreneurship in South African HEIs
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Grundling, J. P.; Steynberg, L. – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
This article first identifies the principal forces that impact on and shape entrepreneurially-oriented higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, and then analyses the degree to which those institutions have succeeded in becoming entrepreneurial. The results reveal that South Africa's HEIs are still in the initial phases of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Developing Nations
Training Implications of Technological Change in Manufacturing in New Industrial Countries: The Case of India. Training Policies Discussion Paper No. 16.
Nigam, S. B. L. – 1986
This report on India is one of a series of country case studies for a research project designed to identify training and education policies pursued by governments and manufacturing firms that have contributed to innovation, technological adaptation and skill development, and other structural changes in economy and work organization. Part 1…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Innovation
MIT's Media Lab, a Media Darling, Seeks Global Role and New Missions.
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, a business-friendly idea factory, has big plans for expansion and for helping developing nations. (EV)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Innovation, Inventions, Program Descriptions
An Appraisal of the Contribution of Rural Sociological and Agricultural Extension Research to the Transfer of Technology to Small Scale Farmers in Nigeria.
Monu, Erasmus D. – 1980
A review of the information provided by rural sociologists and agricultural extensionists regarding the adoption of new and/or improved farm practices in Nigeria in order to determine their contribution to the transfer of technology to farmers indicates that a great deal of attention had been paid to communication variables and to personal and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Developing Nations, Extension Agents, Farmers