Success Factors in Higher Education-Industry Collaboration: A case study Of collaboration in the engineering field

Tertiary Education and Management

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-50

  Thune, Taran ^a  

^a NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN INNOVATION   (Norway)

Author keywords

Employability; Higher education development; Higher education policy; Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952528791     PISSN: 13583883     EISSN: 15731936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13583883.2011.552627     Document Type: Article

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