It appears that during student orientations, universities are too busy (and eager) to point out to students their latest gymnasium on campus for students to work out in, the new restaurants that have opened, how Wi-Fi is accessible in the buildings, and so on.
We compare four different explanations for cross-institutional variation in new firm formation rates from university technology licensing offices (TLOs) over the 1994 1998 period the availability of venture capital in the university area; the commercial orientation of university research and development; intellectual eminence; and university policies.
The increase of entrepreneurial activity within academia has raised concerns that the research orientation of universities might become 'contaminated' by the application-oriented needs of industry.
The development of a new scale, ENTRE-U, that measures the entrepreneurial orientation of university departments is described.
It is expected that by generalizing qualified orientation activities in universities, architecture students will improve their performance especially in the freshman year at the School of Architecture.
The whole network seems to show a breaking point in terms of connectivity around 2005, a year that marks a change in policy rule and strategic orientation of Italian universities towards patenting.
The university was among the first to embrace the Education Department's "Shopping Sheet" to help students make informed financial aid decisions, and our university orientation program helps prospective students fully understand the financial commitment before enrolling in the university.
By December, when Miss Yin attended a university orientation, classmates recognized her as the creator of the group.
The head of orientation at the university told me, in a rather cool, uninvolved manner, that the FBI was enlisting professors to report on students voicing leftwing opinions, and - more comedy - that they had also engaged students to report on professors with the same views.
(That is, it is a core pedagogical orientation of the university mathematician).
