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Government intervention needs to balance labour market efficiency considerations – which would tend to equalise the number of students attending each university – with considerations of efficiency on the production side, which suggest that the most productive universities should teach more students and carry out more research.
With the slogan 'a hub of science, research and technology' [64], its ambitious objective is to become the centre of a real-life service ecosystem that fosters productive university-industry collaboration.
University of Tehran, Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branchh) and Tehran University of Medical Sciences as three main universities in the capital of Iran Tehrann) were the most productive universities with 25, 8.24 and 7.35 % of total article publications, respectively.
Although the confounding effect of institutions' prestige could not be excluded (researchers in the more productive universities could be the most clever and successful in their experiments), these results support the hypothesis that competitive academic environments increase not only scientists' productivity but also their bias.
Interestingly, two clusters near the bottom of the Figure 6 (Cluster 21-Seoul National University and University of Sao Paulo- and Cluster 16-Hokkaido University, Kyushu University and National University of Singapore) indicate highly productive universities in one particular category (SCI), but less in others (HiCi, NS and Size) and nil performance in Alumni and Award.
If graduates earn more than non-graduates because their studies have made them more productive, then university education will boost economic growth and society should want more of it.
Concerning the group activities inside the classroom, K-12 students might require more guidance on group process in order to work as productive as university students (Grypp and Luebeck 2015).
Nonetheless, some of those enrolled into primary schools in 2008/9 are now sitting GCSEs and A-levels; doubtless some will soon move on to college and university – productive, educated members of British society who, if Ukip had its way, would instead have been roaming the streets for five long years of childhood.
In the first place, most internationally known, senior researchers who have earned some success in publishing and in acquiring grants do not normally just walk away from productive lab-based university careers.
Another question arises: how do those tasked with the role of being academic staff developers work in productive ways with university teachers to decolonise institutional cultures?
2. M. Perkmann and A. Salter, "How to Create Productive Partnerships With Universities," MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 4 (summer 2012): 79-88.
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