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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer: Graduates and Entrepreneurial Activity
No full textAccording to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (kste), a large part of the new knowledge created within universities is not valorised in the market due to the presence of a «knowledge filter», i.e. the lack of capabilities of translating new ideas into business opportunities. One of the keys to overcoming this «knowledge filter» is the entrepreneurial activity of graduates that embody the new knowledge. The paper aims at analysing the link between the flow of university graduates per year and the creation of new ventures at the local level in Italy. The paper distinguishes between graduates in humanities and in scientific and technical fields and considers the characteristics of local systems. We estimate the coefficients using the two-step gmm system estimator. Our empirical analysis does not confirm the main evidence in the literature: the flow of graduates does not have a positive impact on the entrepreneurial rates. If we consider the high-tech entrepreneurship, the flow of graduates from technology fields does not affect the entrepreneurial dynamics in high tech sectors, which implies that there is no direct link between the field of study of new graduates and the sector of activity of new companies. This could mean that it is university education per se that matters rather than a specific field of knowledge of educated people
sj-pdf-1-jva-10.1177_11297298231185222 – Supplemental material for Peripherally inserted central venous catheter for pediatric acute leukemia: A retrospective 11-year single-center experience
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jva-10.1177_11297298231185222 for Peripherally inserted central venous catheter for pediatric acute leukemia: A retrospective 11-year single-center experience by Silvio Ligia, Salvatore Giacomo Morano, Francesca Kaiser, Alessandra Micozzi, Antonio Chistolini, Walter Barberi, Valentina Arena, Alfonso Piciocchi, Maurizio Forgione, Giulia Gasperini, Paola Berneschi and Anna Maria Testi in The Journal of Vascular Access</p
Entrepreneurship education in Italian universities: trend, situation and opportunities
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the present situation and recent evolution of entrepreneurship education in Italian universities and to discuss whether these courses and curricula match the demand for entrepreneurial competences.
Design/methodology/approach – The empirical analysis is based on a census of entrepreneurship courses and curricula run by universities. The information collected through the internet refers to the academic years 2003-2004 and 2009-2010.
Findings – Compared with the situation observed in the USA and in other European countries, entrepreneurship education in Italy is rather “underdeveloped”. Only a few universities have courses or specific curricula dedicated to entrepreneurship. The courses are concentrated within business faculties while very few exist in science and engineering faculties. The slow pace with which Italian universities are keeping up with the global trend in entrepreneurship education at university level seems in vivid contrast with the need for the Italian economy to change its industry structure from the so-called “traditional” to “high-tech” sectors. The paper discusses the reasons for this situation
Gli spin-off universitari in Italia: un quadro del fenomeno e un’analisi della governance e della performance
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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