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The Chronicle of Higher Education is Going Global |
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bridges vol. 26, July 2010 / OpEds & Commentaries
By David L. Wheeler
David L. Wheeler, managing editor for the Chronicle International.
About a year and a half ago, I was given the best assignment of my life: to seek out global opportunities for the publication I work for, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Chronicle, based in Washington, DC, was founded in 1966. While covering all aspects of university life, it has paid close attention to research, the financing and administration of science, and the use of technology on campuses. In June my international assignment reached one of its goals, with the launch of The Chronicle's Global Edition, at global.chronicle.com. It's a Web site that reports on the increasingly internationally interconnected world of higher education (readers can switch between the US edition and the global view, depending on their preferences). About 70 full-time editorial-staff members produce The Chronicle, which reaches about 325,000 readers in print and gets about 1.5 million unique visitors a month on its Web site.
I started at The Chronicle 24 years ago, writing about biomedical research. I began working there just as the Human Genome Project and the fight of biomedical researchers against AIDS were also just beginning. As a science writer, I got to spend time in some of the best laboratories in the United States: at the California Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University, among many other institutions. Later I was one of the authors of a regular column called Notes from Academe, written with a day-in-the-life perspective that gave me the opportunity to describe the professional lives of a geologist, a brain surgeon, and a chimpanzee researcher, among others.
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The US Council for International Exchange of Scholars – Administering the Fulbright Program between Austria and the United States |
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bridges vol. 26, July 2010 / OpEds & Commentaries
By Andy Riess
 The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), the scholar division of the Institute of International Education (IIE), is well known for its expertise and extensive experience in conducting international exchange programs for scholars and university administrators. For the past 60 years, CIES (www.cies.org) has administered the Fulbright Scholar Program, the United States flagship academic exchange effort, on behalf of the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
CIES was founded as a nonprofit organization in 1947 by four prestigious academic associations - the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and American Council on Education (ACE). Since 1996, CIES has been a division of the Institute of International Education (IIE), a nonprofit educational and cultural exchange organization established in 1919. The four academic societies (ACLS, NAS, SSRC, and ACE) that founded CIES continue to be represented on the CIES Advisory Board.
CIES maintains deep ties with the higher education community in the United States and abroad, including individual universities and colleges, major scholarly organizations, and academic associations. CIES also collaborates with a network of binational Fulbright Commissions in 50 countries and 90 US diplomatic posts around the world.
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Collaboration between Academia and Industry in the US and in Austria – |
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How TIP, STTR, and COMET Help to Bring Ideas to Market
bridges vol. 26, July 2010 / Feature Articles
By Klaus Puchbauer-Schnabel
In a globalized world, research, development and technological innovation have become key factors in the long-term competitiveness of any country. Their direct and indirect effects on economic growth, employment and, ultimately, the prosperity of a country and its citizens are essential for increasingly knowledge-based societies. Universities play a key in the field of technological progress and knowledge creation. However, it is important that the knowledge produced in academia doesn't sit on the shelf but is used and transformed into products and applications that will enter the marketplace.
The political agendas in the US and Europe seek to stimulate collaboration between universities and industry to foster technology transfer. The results of collaborations between private industry and academia include obtaining R&D expertise, accelerating entry into the marketplace, stimulating creative thinking, and encouraging future collaborations.
Two major public R&D funding programs in the US for public-private partnerships (PPP) are the Technology Innovation Program (TIP) and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR). In Austria, COMET , a program for technology transfer and cooperative research between industry and academia, plays a similarly important role. This article compares the different programs and their approaches to technology transfer
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China and India: New Superpowers in the Telecom Space Industry and Market? |
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bridges vol. 26, July 2010 / OpEds & Commentaries
By Norbert Frischauf and Rainer Horn
Is the West's primacy diminishing in telecom satellite technology?
With the beginning of the third millennium of the common era, China and India have grown into major players in the global space markets, showcasing specific domains of excellence through their ambitious space programs, fueled by investments in defense and institutional programs. As it stands right now, both countries have committed sufficiently enough resources to the space sector to become comparable to other global players.
The European Space Agency (ESA), which coordinates European space activities both in scientific and industrial terms, is by its very nature interested in the agenda items of other players in the space sector and how to align itself with the others to foster collaboration and initiate the right steps to support the European space industry. Therefore, ESA commissioned a study to better understand the background against which this success has been achieved.
The Satellite Telecommunications Sector: (So far) the only true commercial space market
In the last 10-20 years, space has become more and more commercially attractive, nowadays featuring a commercial sector readily comparable with the institutional one.
In fact 2001 was the first year that the commercial sector outran the institutional one in terms of expenditure. At that time the world space market, including commercial revenue generated by space applications (telecommunication, navigation, Earth observation), was estimated to have reached €167 billion. In 2001 the budgets for institutional space programs worldwide totaled €42 billion (civil activities: €26 billion; defense activities: €16 billion). The world commercial market - satellites, launch services, and operations - in 2001 was estimated at €49 billion.1
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