In particular, we find that monetary incentives play a significant role in promoting academic spinoff activity, and that overly-restrictive university rules regarding contract research have a negative effect on spinoff creation.
Otpor started as a student response to a restrictive law on universities in October 1998.
That is largely because hardly any faculty members or students there know that there is something to debate — a contract with extremely restrictive terms that the university signed in 2006 to do research for Philip Morris USA, the nation's largest tobacco company and a unit of Altria Group.
Even the thought of university felt too restrictive, and I delayed going until my mid-twenties.
Last Thursday, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) blasted BP for its "chilling" practice of slapping restrictive confidentiality agreements on the university scientists it has hired to study the oil spill.
He soon moved his university to a less restrictive option, already used by Harvard and some others, that allows students to apply early but then put off their decision until spring.
The aim of the present study was to assess the adequacy of empirical and adjusted antibiotic therapies at a Swiss university hospital where no restrictive measures regarding antibiotic use are in place, and to identify risk factors for inadequate treatment and targets for intervention.
First, since white colleges and universities no longer have racially restrictive admission policies, are HBCUs still necessary?
At a time when governors like Florida Gov. Rick Scott are slashing spending on education, colleges and universities are virtually forced into restrictive and ideological funding agreements with questionable sources to meet students' demands.
Visa policies are too restrictive, cruelly separating families and driving away talented university graduates to other countries.
Work tables at the university were not accessible to people with restrictive mobility like me.
