Between the local and the global: Organized research units and international collaborations in the health sciences

Higher Education

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 367-382

  Sá, Creso M ^a   Oleksiyenko, Anatoly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Academic health science centers; Academic medicine; Centers and institutes; Globalization; Interdisciplinary fields; Interdisciplinary research; International research collaborations; Medical school; Organizational change; Organized research units; University research

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051663723     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-010-9393-8     Document Type: Article

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