Student Entrepreneurship in Universities: The State-of-the-Art

The purpose of this paper is to understand how universities develop and support student entrepreneurship. We did a preliminary Systematic Literature Review (SRL) on scientific articles regarding student entrepreneurship published during the last twenty years. Our findings emphasize three main research areas, emerging from a cluster analysis: (i) student entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention; (ii) university support for entrepreneurship; (iii) entrepreneurship education and learning. Particularly, our study points out that the new paradigm of the entrepreneurial university overcame the classical university model through the introduction of many innovations to foster student entrepreneurship. This paper provides an SLR on university role in fostering student entrepreneurship and it is useful for the academic and professional community. Additionally, it is original because it highlights the future directions of entrepreneurship and the main innovations adopted by universities to help students in the development of entrepreneurial initiatives.

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A Review of Registered Clinical Trials on Dietary (Poly)Phenols: Past Efforts and Possible Future Directions

Foods ◽

10.3390/foods9111606 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. 1606

Author(s):

Mirko Marino ◽

Cristian Del Bo’ ◽

Daniela Martini ◽

Marisa Porrini ◽

Patrizia Riso

Keyword(s):

Clinical Trials ◽

Intervention Studies ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Individual Variability ◽

Future Directions ◽

Main Research ◽

Research Areas ◽

Pure Compounds ◽

Randomised Controlled

In recent years, the increasing number of studies on polyphenol demonstrates the efforts in elucidating the potential role of these bioactives on human health. This study reviews the main topics and characteristics of clinical trials on polyphenols registered over the last 20 years, in order to track past and current efforts as well as to highlight the main research gaps in this field. The review was conducted by collecting trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov and International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN) registry. Overall, 750 clinical trials were selected and included in the final evaluation. Most of the trials were performed on extracts or pure compounds followed by studies conducted on polyphenol-rich foods, in particular berries. A total of 520 clinical trials focused on health effects, 55 on bioavailability, and 175 on both. Regarding outcomes, 139 registered intervention studies had the lipid profile and blood pressure as primary outcomes. The overview provided by this analysis also emphasizes the emerging interest in new outcomes related to polyphenols intervention such as microbiota composition and the evaluation of inter-individual variability in response to the intake of polyphenols. Our review underlines the need of further trials covering unexplored or debated research aspects and provides insights for the design and development of future intervention studies and related research areas.

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Towards a Sustainable Circular Economy

10.4018/978-1-7998-8482-8.ch010 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 138-164

Author(s):

Soraya M. Ruiz-Peñalver ◽

José M. Rodríguez-Antón

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Systematic Literature Review ◽

Circular Economy ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Sustainable Society ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Research Gaps ◽

Main Research ◽

Quantitative Studies ◽

The Impact

The circular economy (CE) is a new paradigm that helps create convergence into a more sustainable society. This chapter shows the main findings of a systematic literature review examining the state of the art of the business concept of sustainability and CE and how scholars have focused on the implementation of circular and sustainable principles in sectors and firms. The main findings show a lack of consensus on definitions related to CE, creating confusion among firms. Final findings also show the challenges that businesses face and the main obstacles that explain why some organisations fail in the transition. Additionally, this review helps to highlight the main research gaps on the topic to encourage sustainability and circularity among firms. Whilst there are an increasing number of papers related to circularity and supply chains, few papers concern with dematerialising products and services. Another gap is the lack of quantitative studies measuring the impact of transitioning to sustainable and circular economies.

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Accounting Research on Private Firms: State of the Art and Future Directions

The International Journal of Accounting ◽

10.1142/s1094406019500070 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 54 (02) ◽

pp. 1950007 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sasson Bar-Yosef ◽

Carlo D’Augusta ◽

Annalisa Prencipe

Keyword(s):

Financial Reporting ◽

Global Economy ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Private Firms ◽

Public Companies ◽

Main Research ◽

Accounting Research ◽

Research Areas ◽

Public Data ◽

Definition Of

Private companies play a significant role and are the main growth engine of the global economy. Yet, until recently, empirical research in accounting has focused primarily on public companies. Over the last few years, we have observed a change in trend. Accounting scholars have started researching private firms and have contributed to a better understanding of their accounting decisions. This growing attention is likely due to a better availability of public data and to the fact that several regulators issued specific regulations on private firms’ financial reporting. In this paper, we analyze the state of the art of accounting research in this area. We review 95 papers published in 21 accounting journals over the period 1986–2018. After looking into the definition of private firms, we highlight the role of the private firm status in the research design, classify each paper into four main research areas (i.e., financial accounting, taxation, auditing, and valuation) and discuss the main contributions. We argue that the current state of accounting research on private firms — although quite rich — is still insufficient in light of the relevance of such a segment of the world economy. After soliciting additional research, we devise possible venues for future studies.

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City Information Modeling: State of the Art

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11199333 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (19) ◽

pp. 9333

Author(s):

Zhen Xu ◽

Mingzhu Qi ◽

Yingying Wu ◽

Xintian Hao ◽

Yajun Yang

Keyword(s):

Future Development ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Information Modeling ◽

Typical Application ◽

Main Research ◽

City Life ◽

Research Areas ◽

Current State ◽

Significant Research ◽

The City

The concept of city information modeling (CIM) has become increasingly popular in recent years. A literature review of previous CIM studies is presented in this paper. First, a bibliometric analysis of the current global CIM research is described, revealing that CIM has become a significant research hotspot. Next, three main research areas of the current CIM technique, namely data collection, integration, and visualization, are summarized to describe the characteristics of CIM research. Furthermore, some widely used CIM platforms are compared, and typical application cases of the CIM technique at different stages of the city life cycle are summarized. Finally, the current issues in CIM research are discussed, and future development directions are proposed. The findings of this study are expected to help researchers understand the current state of CIM and identify future development directions, thereby promoting CIM research development.

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Social exchange processes, health behaviour, and health behaviour change

Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie ◽

10.1026/0943-8149.16.3.131 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 131-134

Author(s):

Urte Scholz ◽

Rainer Hornung

Keyword(s):

Social Exchange ◽

Health Behaviour ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Smoking Behaviour ◽

Self Report ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Main Research ◽

Research Areas ◽

Exchange Processes ◽

Multi Method Approach

Abstract. The main research areas of the Social and Health Psychology group at the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, are introduced. Exemplarily, three currently ongoing projects are described. The project ”Dyadic exchange processes in couples facing dementia” examines social exchanges in couples with the husband suffering from dementia and is based on Equity Theory. This project applies a multi-method approach by combining self-report with observational data. The ”Swiss Tobacco Monitoring System” (TMS) is a representative survey on smoking behaviour in Switzerland. Besides its survey character, the Swiss TMS also allows for testing psychological research questions on smoking with a representative sample. The project, ”Theory-based planning interventions for changing nutrition behaviour in overweight individuals”, elaborates on the concept of planning. More specifically, it is tested whether there is a critical amount of repetitions of a planning intervention (e.g., three or nine times) in order to ensure long-term effects.

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Effects of Psychotherapy on Brain Activation Patterns in Anxiety Disorders

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000240 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 224 (2) ◽

pp. 62-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Thomas Straube

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Disorders ◽

Neuronal Plasticity ◽

Functional Neuroimaging ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Methodological Issues ◽

Future Directions ◽

Activation Patterns ◽

New Learning ◽

Analytical Strategies ◽

Sample Characteristics

Abstract. Psychotherapy is an effective treatment for most mental disorders, including anxiety disorders. Successful psychotherapy implies new learning experiences and therefore neural alterations. With the increasing availability of functional neuroimaging methods, it has become possible to investigate psychotherapeutically induced neuronal plasticity across the whole brain in controlled studies. However, the detectable effects strongly depend on neuroscientific methods, experimental paradigms, analytical strategies, and sample characteristics. This article summarizes the state of the art, discusses current theoretical and methodological issues, and suggests future directions of the research on the neurobiology of psychotherapy in anxiety disorders.

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Borders, Conflicts and Bargaining in Federations and Communities of Governments

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2009-12-83-99 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 83-99

Author(s):

A. Libman

Keyword(s):

Economic Policy ◽

Public Authority ◽

Modern World ◽

Main Research ◽

Research Areas ◽

Nation States ◽

Distribution Of Power

Economic policy in the modern world can be treated as an outcome of interaction of multiple territorial centers of public authority: nation-states, subnational and supranational jurisdictions. In the last decades economics has increased its attention to the factors which influence the distribution of power among jurisdictions. The paper surveys two main research areas in this literature: economics of conflicts and theory of endogenous decentralization. It discusses the basic models of both approaches and their modifications applied in the literature as well as factors of conflict formation and bargaining over devolution.

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TEACHING INNOVATION AND THE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN ARCHITECTURE: LEARNING BUILDING SERVICES DESIGN FOR SMART AND ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS

International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAR ◽

10.26687/archnet-ijar.v12i1.1298 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 367

Author(s):

Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo ◽

Jesica Fernandez-Aguera ◽

Patricia Fernandez-Aguera

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Participatory Design ◽

Energy Use ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Professional Community ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Teaching Innovation ◽

Energy Efficient Buildings

Today’s buildings are evolving from structures comprising unchanging, static elements scantly able to interact with their surroundings, towards complex systemic compounds with an impact on the environs that entails more than mere anthropic alteration. In pursuit of energy efficiency and true sustainability, buildings must acquire the ability to interact as well as to generate synergies. The most prominent features of this approach are energy management and information flows which, intelligently designed, not only enhance buildings’ capabilities, but also introduce a significant change in their relationship with the surrounds (‘smart cities’) and its inhabitants. This new paradigm calls for revisiting undergraduate architectural instruction, adopting a more complex overview of energy use and management in the design process, regarding buildings as dynamic rather than static entities. The methodology focuses on creating learning environments that favour students’ participation in problem solving and assessment, encouraging teamwork based on case studies and stressing the connection between this new architecture, ICTs included, and social networks as participatory design tools. These ideas were implemented in a pilot learning experience conducted at the University of Seville for undergraduate students. The use of ICTs and the collaboration of non-academic experts were observed to further student promotion and projection beyond the academic environment and introduce them to the professional community.

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