Higher Education

For a number of years, approximately 5% of students in Nacka have lacked access to secondary school. This figure is low compared to most other municipalities. In Spring 2013, 59 students in ninth grade could not gain access to secondary school across the 16 schools assessed. It is a high priority for Nacka Education Committee that…

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)  has a long tradition of receiving visiting researchers for shorter and longer stays. A stay at EMBL is likely to have a significant impact on a researcher’s career. The study aimed at uncovering what impact a stay at EMBL has had for the individual in his or her research…

On behalf of the Dutch Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy (AWT), Derek Jan Fikkers wrote an advice about the Dutch labour market for knowledge workers and the possibilities for the Dutch government to trim demand and supply on the labour market in the future. In June 2013 the advice was be presented to…

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has a long tradition of receiving visiting researchers for shorter and longer stays. A stay at EMBL is likely to have a significant impact on a researcher’s career. The study aimed at uncovering what impact a stay at EMBL has had for the individual in his or her research career….

The European Commision asked Technopolis to identify optimal effectiveness of Science, Technology and Innovation Agreements with non-EU countries. We showed that many bilateral STI agreements signed by EU Member States are of limited use. However, as both the EU and Member States seek to treat scientific cooperation with third countries as an issue of common…

HEInnovate is a self-assessment tool for Entrepreneurial Higher Education Institutions. It is an initiative of the European Commission, DG Education and Culture and the OECD LEED forum, and supported by a panel of six independent experts. The website has been designed and is managed by Technopolis under a Framework Contract agreement with the European Commission,…

The project dealt with the evaluation of the Ile de France regional scheme for innovative projects development. The Ile de France Region gathers more than a half of French RDI efforts (public and private spending, researchers, patents…). However recent studies showed that the regional “innovation machine” is not producing enough results. Business creation is one…

The recent university mergers in Sweden and Denmark are described and investigated in this study. Good practice, processes, preconditions and problems along the way are covered. In Sweden, the merger that resulted in the Linnaeus University, the merger between the University College Gotland and Uppsala University, and the merger between Stockholm School of Teacher Education…