The Role of Scientific Excellence in the Changing Meaning of Maize in Mexico

Nowadays, the Industry 4.0 concept affects every area of the industrial, economic, social and personal sectors. The most significant changings are the automation and the digitalization. This is also true for the material handling processes, where the handling systems use more and more automated machines; planning, operation and optimization of different logistic processes are based on many digital data collected from the material flow process. However, new methods and devices require new solutions which define new research directions. In this paper we describe the state of the art of the material handling researches and draw the role of the UMi-TWINN partner institutes in these fields. As a result of this H2020 EU project, scientific excellence of the University of Miskolc can be increased and new research activities will be started.

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Universities and start-up creation by Ph.D. graduates: the role of scientific and social capital of academic laboratories

The Journal of Technology Transfer ◽

10.1007/s10961-020-09841-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Alessandro Muscio ◽

Sotaro Shibayama ◽

Laura Ramaciotti

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Training Period ◽

Scientific Excellence ◽

Academic Knowledge ◽

Start Up ◽

Industry Collaboration ◽

Business Experience ◽

Subject Areas ◽

Scientific Capital

AbstractThis paper investigates how the characteristics of university laboratories influence the propensity of Ph.D. students to entrepreneurship, and thus, contribute to the transfer of academic knowledge to society. As determinants of Ph.D. entrepreneurship, we focus on the lab scientific and social capital as well as on the business experience that Ph.D. students acquire during their training period. The empirical exercise is based on questionnaire survey data of 5266 Ph.D. students in Italian universities in all subject areas. First, we find that 6.7% of the Ph.D. graduates engage in startup activities, and thus, Ph.D. training seems to contribute to knowledge transfer through entrepreneurship. Second, Ph.D. entrepreneurship is driven by business experience, in the forms of industry collaboration and industrially applicable research projects, during their training period. Third, the lab scientific capital is negatively associated with Ph.D. entrepreneurship, suggesting a conflict between scientific excellence and entrepreneurship, but this effect is mitigated if students acquire business experience. Fourth, the lab social capital increases the chance of startup when students have business experience. We further investigate the effects of lab environment by distinguishing between startups that are based on university research and startups that are not, finding different determinants.

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Achieving scientific excellence: An exploratory study of the role of emotional and motivational factors

High Ability Studies ◽

10.1080/13598139.2016.1264293 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 249-264 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Liliana S. Araújo ◽

José Fernando A. Cruz ◽

Leandro S. Almeida

Keyword(s):

Exploratory Study ◽

Motivational Factors ◽

Scientific Excellence

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Carbon nanostructures: scientometric analysis for 2000-2015 (part 1)

Bibliosphere ◽

10.20913/1815-3186-2017-4-101-107 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 101-107

Author(s):

A. I. Terekhov

Keyword(s):

Carbon Nanostructures ◽

Total Output ◽

Scientometric Analysis ◽

Scientific Excellence ◽

The World ◽

The Usa ◽

Using Data ◽

Science Citation Index Expanded ◽

Highly Cited

The article presents a scientometric analysis of the development of the carbon nanotechnology (NT) direction for 2000-2015 with the participation of 30 most active countries. It shows shifting the world research center to the Asian region, both on volume and quality indicators. Using the concept of a national research portfolio gives deep characteristics of different countries behavior in the course of scientific rivalry. Due to the strong skewness of the citation distributions, preference is given to the percentile-based indicators, such as: the contribution of a country to the world top-10% (top-1%) of the most highly cited publications, the share of such publications in the country's total output, the highly cited papers index, etc. Relying on them, the author fully discloses the scientific «offensive» of the «newcomer» countries on the «incumbents» ones (e.g. China on the USA, South Korea on Germany, Iran on Russia), the phenomenon of Singapore as an effective producer of highly cited publications on the carbon nanostructures, and international co-authorship in the top-1% segment of the most cited articles. Russia's positions are studied in detail, the main domestic research participants are established, and based on bibliometric criteria the center of scientific excellence in the field of graphene is identified. The paper characterizes the supporting role of a number of national science foundations in the NT carbon direction development using data of WoS. The author used the Science Citation Index Expanded database for the initial bibliographic sampling; information of science foundations of Russia and the USA, as well as patent organizations of Russia (Rospatent) and the world (WIPO) for additional comparison.

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Nadanie tytułu naukowego profesora. Kilka refleksji na tle regulacji zawartych w ustawie Prawo o szkolnictwie wyższym i nauce

Białostockie Studia Prawnicze ◽

10.15290/bsp.2020.25.04.10 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 137-157

Author(s):

Magdalena Sieniuć ◽

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Scientific Excellence ◽

The Law ◽

The Republic ◽

The University

The Law on Higher Education and Science of 20 July 2018, entered into force on 1 October 2018, introduced changes concerning the prerequisites for the acquisition of the academic title of professor and the procedure for awarding it. The stage of proceedings before the board of an organisational unit (e.g. Faculty Council) was also abandoned, which in fact led the procedure beyond the ‘walls of the university’ and limited it to the stage of proceedings before the Council of Scientific Excellence. The author considers selected issues relating to the Professor’s academic title, concerning the premise for awarding it, the course of the proceedings in this subject and the entities taking part in them, as well as the role played by the President of the Republic of Poland in these proceedings. As a result of the considerations conducted, the author assumed that the most far-reaching change was the legislator’s resignation from the stage of proceedings before the council of the entity from which the candidate for the title of professor had come from, assuming that the role of the President of the Republic of Poland in this process had not undergone any significant changes. He remains bound by the opinions of the reviewers appointed by the Council of Scientific Excellence and its position expressed in the administrative decision issued on the application for the academic title. In accordance with the viewpoint of the author, due to the resignation of the legislator from the stage of proceedings before an individual’s council, the opinions of the reviewers expressed in the justification of the Council of Scientific Excellence decision are now, in principle, the only emanation of the assessment of the scientific community expressed in this procedure.

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Carbon nanostructures: scientometric analysis for 2000-2015 (Part 3)

Bibliosphere ◽

10.20913/1815-3186-2018-2-69-76 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 69-76

Author(s):

A. I. Terekhov

Keyword(s):

Carbon Nanostructures ◽

Total Output ◽

Scientometric Analysis ◽

Scientific Excellence ◽

The World ◽

The Usa ◽

Using Data ◽

Science Citation Index Expanded ◽

Highly Cited

The article presents a scientometric analysis of the development of the carbon nanotechnology (NT) direction for 2000-2015 with the participation of 30 most active countries. It shows shifting the world research center to the Asian region, both on volume and quality indicators. Using the concept of a national research portfolio gives deep characteristics of different countries behavior in the course of scientific rivalry. Due to the strong skewness of the citation distributions, preference is given to the percentile-based indicators, such as: the contribution of a country to the world top-10% (top-1%) of the most highly cited publications, the share of such publications in the country's total output, the highly cited papers index, etc. Relying on them, the author fully discloses the scientific «offensive» of the «newcomer» countries on the «incumbents» ones (e.g. China on the USA, South Korea on Germany, Iran on Russia), the phenomenon of Singapore as an effective producer of highly cited publications on the carbon nanostructures, and international co-authorship in the top-1% segment of the most cited articles. Russia's positions are studied in detail, the main domestic research participants are established, and based on bibliometric criteria the center of scientific excellence in the field of graphene is identified. The paper characterizes the supporting role of a number of national science foundations in the NT carbon direction development using data of WoS. The author used the Science Citation Index Expanded database for the initial bibliographic sampling; information of science foundations of Russia and the USA, as well as patent organizations of Russia (Rospatent) and the world (WIPO) for additional comparison.

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Research and innovation futures: exploring new ways of doing and organizing knowledge creation

foresight ◽

10.1108/fs-04-2016-0017 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 193-203 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

K. Matthias Weber ◽

Effie Amanatidou ◽

Lorenz Erdmann ◽

Mika Nieminen

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Creation ◽

Special Issue ◽

Scientific Excellence ◽

Content Type ◽

Research And Innovation ◽

The One ◽

Innovation Practices ◽

Science Technology And Innovation ◽

Institutional Embedding

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of research and innovation futures, sketch the landscape of recent findings in this field with a focus on new ways of doing and organizing knowledge creation and position the contributions to this special issue within that landscape. Design/methodology/approach This paper includes a review of literature on the embedding of research and innovation in society, outlines the main domains of current drivers of change and summarises the contributions to the special issue. Findings Recent controversies about the future of research and innovation draw on a long-standing trajectory of debate about the role of science, technology and innovation in society, and the balance between autonomy in striving for scientific excellence on the one hand and the quest for social and economic relevance on the other. Six major domains of current and expected future changes in research and innovation are identified, and serve as the backdrop for positioning the more specific contributions to this special issue. Originality/value The main value of this contribution is to provide a condensed and original look at emerging directions of change in research and innovation practices and their organisational and institutional embedding in society.

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Carbon nanostructures: scientometric analysis for 2000-2015 (part 2)

Bibliosphere ◽

10.20913/1815-3186-2018-1-57-65 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 57-65

Author(s):

A. I. Terekhov

Keyword(s):

Carbon Nanostructures ◽

Total Output ◽

Scientometric Analysis ◽

Scientific Excellence ◽

The World ◽

The Usa ◽

Using Data ◽

Science Citation Index Expanded ◽

Highly Cited

The article presents a scientometric analysis of the development of the carbon nanotechnology (NT) direction for 2000-2015 with the participation of 30 most active countries. It shows shifting the world research center to the Asian region, both on volume and quality indicators. Using the concept of a national research portfolio gives deep characteristics of different countries behavior in the course of scientific rivalry. Due to the strong skewness of the citation distributions, preference is given to the percentile-based indicators, such as: the contribution of a country to the world top-10% (top-1%) of the most highly cited publications, the share of such publications in the country's total output, the highly cited papers index, etc. Relying on them, the author fully discloses the scientific «offensive» of the «newcomer» countries on the «incumbents» ones (e.g. China on the USA, South Korea on Germany, Iran on Russia), the phenomenon of Singapore as an effective producer of highly cited publications on the carbon nanostructures, and international co-authorship in the top-1% segment of the most cited articles. Russia's positions are studied in detail, the main domestic research participants are established, and based on bibliometric criteria the center of scientific excellence in the field of graphene is identified. The paper characterizes the supporting role of a number of national science foundations in the NT carbon direction development using data of WoS. The author used the Science Citation Index Expanded database for the initial bibliographic sampling; information of science foundations of Russia and the USA, as well as patent organizations of Russia (Rospatent) and the world (WIPO) for additional comparison.

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