Research on the Construction of School-Enterprise Cooperation Model Based on the Perspective of Knowledge Transfer “Quintuple Helix Mode”

School-enterprise cooperation is an important way and support for industrialization of science and technology production. It’s not only beneficial to the scientific and technological output of universities, but also to improve firms’ innovation performance and financial performance. However, there are still the problems existed in Chinese school-enterprise cooperation such as poor docking between scientific project and market, scattered innovation resources, unsustainable technology innovation, and lower quality results. The main reason is that the channel of knowledge transfer is single and lack of support from multiple functions of universities. Based on the perspective of knowledge transfer “quintuple helix mode”，this paper construct a multi-dimensional school-enterprise cooperation interaction channels from aspects of knowledge sharing platform, intermediary service agency, open communication forum, bidirectional embedded talent flow, trans-regional innovation and entrepreneurship park, specialized funds and venture investment systems. This model is conductive to the realization of universities’ multiple functions in innovation and maximizes knowledge transfer effect, and further advance the deepening and efficiency of school-enterprise cooperation in China. Keywords: school-enterprise cooperation, knowledge transfer, quintuple helix mod

Lifelong guidance policy and practice in the EU

A study on lifelong guidance (LLG) policy and practice in the EU focusing on trends, challenges and opportunities. Lifelong guidance aims to provide career development support for individuals of all ages, at all career stages. It includes careers information, advice, counselling, assessment of skills and mentoring

The business case for telemedicine

Background and aim: Following the coming into force of the International Labour Organisation Maritime Labour Convention (ILO/MLC) and International Maritime Organisation Standards for Training, Certification and Watchkeeping, Manila 2010 (IMO/STCW) amendments, the objective of this article is to provide the shipping community with an initial assessment of the economic reasons and business case, in support of both publicly financed and private telemedicine being implemented on board commercial vessels.Materials and methods: It provides the global scale of the requirement, the number of Telemedicine Assistance Services (TMAS) calls handled by participating TMAS, the average direct and indirect costs incurred by both TMAS and ship operators, responding to medical emergencies, and also provides a calculation of the market size of about 760 million Euro/year. It estimates a return on investment per ship, of implementing telemedicine on board to meet the MLC and STCW requirements at less than 1 year.Results and conclusions: 1. There are both financial and soft benefits, such as crew retention and being perceived as a quality employer offering a telemedicine service on board. 2. It is quite possible to obtain a 20% savings to the industry of perhaps 152 million Euro/year from the deployment of telemedicine on board. 3. The deployment of a telemedical service on ships is an opportunity to encourage further cooperation between TMAS and also with the private TMAS sector. 4. There is clearly a great need, on a global basis, for more cooperation, particularly in standardisation of pre-boarding medical files available, the equipmentrequired on board at a minimum, and level of service quality provided. 5. A collection of a common TMAS annual set of normalised statistics from the stakeholders in the maritime industry is needed. Should someone not be tasked with collecting this? 6. Open registries and countries where the private sector only providestele medicine, should be encouraged to work with the global public TMAS system and contribute to its costs

Ways to open innovation: main agents and sources in the Portuguese case

Facing increasing open innovation trends, Portuguese enterprises are considering the related processes and impacts. Thus, this work aims to identify the sectors whose enterprises most engage in open innovation (such as cooperation on this issue) and which sources/agents are most used. This is analyzed by sector and type of innovation as an interesting way of differentiation for better open innovation strategy delineation. Using the data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS-2012), it first appraises the nature of the innovation process, either cooperative or firm-based, as the starting level of analysis. Then, it differentiates the results by sector illustrating which cooperation sources/agents are most used (scope) and relative intensity of use (scale). This is important to assess levels of openness and related factors. Results show that main innovating sectors in Portugal are of three types: research-based, knowledge-based and service-based. They reveal an increasing focus on knowledge and services, trends that have been leading to more active openness towards innovation. For instance, health and construction are increasing their openness for innovating and internationalizing processes. However, Portuguese innovation is still more firm-based (in-house) than cooperation-based, especially concerning new products' launching. This work and future analyzes around it can contribute to encourage the open innovation strategy in more sectors of the economy as an easy and effective way to cope with rapid trends and changes. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Towards a New Era of Journal Publishing: The Coalition of Diamond

Since the early 1990s, the term Open Access has been synonymous with the principle of publishing the scientific results of taxpayer-funded research at low cost and making them available to the public free of charge. In response to increasing academic demand for at least some degree of unrestricted access to research results, this idea of Open Access has been taken up by commercial publishers and harshly altered to accommodate finance models that allow global access to scien-tific and scholarly articles on payment of a publication fee. This has exacerbated the financial burden on universities with a strong publishing portfolio while the annual balance sheet for publishing houses remains unaffected. The new charging models merely transfer the costs incurred from the end of the publication process to the start. A sustainable university-internal, regional or even international reallocation of funds to finance these commercial Open Access models has so far proved unrealistic. In response to these developments, we would like to present The Coalition for Diamond Open Ac-cess Publishing (COAP), an international support network for the publication of Diamond Open Ac-cess Journals at universities. As a cooperation of scientists, academic associations and libraries, COAP creates the necessary technical and organizational conditions, infrastructure and standards for the publication of competitive diamond open access articles. While there are already numerous initiatives pursuing the goal of low-cost publishing, many of these projects are limited by region or subject specific. Some set methodological priorities, others are developing models to increase the efficiency of Open Access publications. All of these show how extensive, but also disparate the interest in restructuring the Open Access market is. What is lacking is a concentrated networking of the respective service providers in the Diamond Open Access sector with scientists and their representatives, and of the service providers in the Open Access sector with each other. It is, however, only in this combination that a sustainable restructuring of the publication landscape would be possible. This is where COAP comes into play. Providing a decentralized publication infrastructure supported by a collaborative network of academic institutions and scientists, COAP aims to shape a new era of independent scholar-led publishing. We would be pleased to present COAP to a broad international audience at the 42nd IATUL Conference

German and Israeli Innovation: The Best of Two Worlds

This study reviews – through desk research and expert interviews with Mittelstand companies, startups and ecosystem experts – the current status of the Israeli startup ecosystem and the Mittelstand region of North Rhine- Westphalia (NRW), Germany. As a case study, it highlights potential opportunities for collaboration and analyzes different engagement modes that might serve to connect the two regions. The potential synergies between the two economies are based on a high degree of complementarity. A comparison of NRW’s key verticals and Israel’s primary areas of innovation indicates that there is significant overlap in verticals, such as artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), sensors and cybersecurity. Israeli startups can offer speed, agility and new ideas, while German Mittelstand companies can contribute expertise in production and scaling, access to markets, capital and support. The differences between Mittelstand companies and startups are less pronounced than those between startups and big corporations. However, three current barriers to fruitful collaboration have been identified: 1) a lack of access, 2) a lack of transparency regarding relevant players in the market, and 3) a lack of the internal resources needed to select the right partners, often due to time constraints or a lack of internal expertise on this issue. To ensure that positive business opportunities ensue, Mittelstand companies and startups alike have to be proactive in their search for cooperation partners and draw on a range of existing engagement modes (e.g., events, communities, accelerators). The interviews and the research conducted for this study made clear that no single mode of engagement can address all the needs and challenges associated with German-Israeli collaboration

Complex regional innovation networks and HEI engagement the case of Chicago

This article considers how HEIs engage within local complex development networks in order to develop the urban metropolis, using the case of Chicago as a specific example. It focuses on three main issues: how collaboration occurs amongst regional stakeholders; how goals are set and how shared goals have been created; and the extent to which there exist conflicting views amongst stakeholders, and their capability to create solutions where there are disagreements and clashing purposes. Chicago is in the middle of making a paradigm shift, with at its core an open system approach that includes a variety of ways to engage citizen-users as co-creators, including through user-driven innovation and digitalised services. In the metropolitan area there is a widely shared goal amongst stakeholders to develop and improve novel approaches for regional engagement to enhance innovativeness and competitiveness. The paradigm shift in regional engagement from building co-operation clusters to one of organisational betweenness and open systemic thinking requires new skills in management and leadership centred on interaction, co-creation and sharing of knowledge