Intellectual Capital Reportage
Reporting on management innovations and intelligence in intellectual
capital management
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April 2008
As a result of public-private partnerships, universities are becoming
enterprises competing for research funding. Their traditional academic
mission of extending knowledge is now incorporating the mission of
capitalizing on knowledge for corporate profit.
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Carl Zeiss Meditec has entered into a cooperation with the distinguished
Centro di Odontoiatria del Lingotto at the University of Torino, Italy,
in the field of dental training. The University is among the world's
most renowned dental education and training centres.
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Microsoft is one of Carnegie Mellon University's top corporate
supporters, partnering in many ways. More than 300 university alumni
currently work at Microsoft offices around the globe.
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Ref: 04/003
Mark Yudof has been appointed as the next president of the University of
California. The fact that he comes from outside the system is being
hailed as a sign of a new era at UC – not quite a revolution but close
to it.
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Ref: 04/004
The
Global Reporting Initiative Matchmaker Program has been launched for
student engagement and sustainability reporting. The GRI Matchmaker
Program is small, but it suggests other possible links between companies
and universities around sustainability performance and reporting. It's a
natural outgrowth of one of the central ideas of sustainability.
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Even though ‘sustainability’ is operationalized differently, depending
on the organization, it is increasingly being refined in its definition
and scope as practitioners and academics work to define the field and
management discipline.
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The 2-year Leonardo Da Vinci ECUANET project, researching best practice
in corporate university and academy development, is now complete. It
shows a best practice inventory for the future management of
organisation learning and has created an effective network of corporate
university and academy practitioners and participants.
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Ref: 04/007
The Alliance for Technology Education (TATE) is presenting educational
institutions with exciting curriculum, On-Campus TV content and Library
Modules for 2008-2009 Academic Year at no cost to the university. The
programs are fully funded through private resources to promote business
and technology education to today’s Future Business Leaders.
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Ref: 04/008
ChinaCast Education Corporation has taken bold strides to enter new
sectors of the rapidly growing China education market. The strategy is
to expand core e-learning business and the proposed acquisition of their
first for-profit, private university, the Foreign Trade and Business
College ("FTBC") of Chongqing Normal University.
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Ref: 04/009
