Using patent analysis studying US semi-conductor firms, they examined the transferofknowledge between pairs of firms: the firm from which the employee was poached and the poacher.
The protocol of intent signed today aims to transfer the accumulated knowledge to other countries through translation and dissemination of technologies by the same partners.
Professor Adam Tickell, pro-vice-chancellor for research and knowledgetransfer at the University of Birmingham said that universities were hugely supportive of the move toward the new model of scientific publishing.
To believe otherwise is to believe that someone (the college professor) who for the most part lacks any background in the real-world application of finance could transfer skills to those who desire that real-world knowledge.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators, which it says makes it the only world rankings to examine all the core missions of the modern global university - research, teaching, knowledgetransfer and international activity.