Purpose It is important to have a literature review to open any special issue as a way of
introducing the state-of-the-art topics and link past research with the papers appearing in …

From being entities for knowledge creation and dissemination, universities are now asked to
play an increasingly entrepreneurial role, involving networking and collaboration, as well as …

This paper aims to investigate intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) provided by Italian public
universities in their annual reports and to identify and examine its drivers. An empirical …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare of the way intellectual capital (IC) is
disclosed in the websites of the universities in three European countries to assess the way …

Governments continuously design and redesign higher education policies, and
governmental capacities are the pillars for undertaking these tasks during the formulation …

Accreditation systems in higher education are widespread both in the USA and in Europe.
However, numerous reservations have appeared in the literature about whether these …

Quality assurance in higher education has developed and has been totally reformed in the
last decades. In particular, in Italy the AVA system (Autovalutazione, Valutazione e …

Purpose Intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) in universities is gaining increasing attention,
especially through the adoption of innovative technologies. Online media, as a relevant …

This paper aims to understand the influence of institutional and organisational
embeddedness on research productivity of Italian sociologists. We looked at all records …

A drug discovery program is initiated once a druggable target is unraveled through either
academic research or from clinical observations [1]. Academic research is all-encompassing …