In recent years, there has been increasing pressure on Universities to shift from focusing
primarily on teaching and performing research, and to add an equivocal Third Mission (TM) …

Rural decline is an inevitable process as human society transforms from the agrarian to the
urban-industrial economy, and further on to the knowledge economy. Through an extensive …

The digital revolution has substantially impacted education. The evolution of the use of
technologies in education has been gradual and different, mostly depending on the teaching …

Purpose This paper proposes adequate strategies that companies, public administrators
and organisations in the education industry can undertake to successfully face the …

Abstract The Triple Helix of university-industry-government interactions, highlighting the
enhanced role of the university in the transition from industrial to knowledge-based society …

Abstract While the Triple Helix and Quadruple Helix models are popular in innovation
studies, the relations between them have not been addressed extensively in the literature …

We investigate the degree to which impact in science and technology is associated with
surprising breakthroughs, and how those breakthroughs arise. Identifying breakthroughs …

In recent years, the concept of smart sustainable cities has come to the fore. And it is rapidly
gaining momentum and worldwide attention as a promising response to the challenge of …

The concept of an 'innovation ecosystem'is increasingly used to describe collectives of
heterogeneous, yet complementary organizational actors who jointly create some kind of …

By expanding the scope of sustainability to the entire lifecycle of chemical products, the
concept of circular chemistry aims to replace today's linear 'take–make–dispose'approach …