Think Tanks and Universities
This digital publication presents the Series Think Tanks and Universities edited by Shannon Sutton, from the Think Tank Initiative. In it, authors from Latin America, Africa and Asia write...
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This digital publication presents the Series Think Tanks and Universities edited by Shannon Sutton, from the Think Tank Initiative. In it, authors from Latin America, Africa and Asia write...
The following Reading List offer insight into the relationship between think tanks and universities. It can be read alongside the think tanks and universities series. The think tanks and universities series Think...
On the fifth post from the Think Tanks and University series, Shannon Sutton, editor of the series, explores the challenges that think tanks and universities face when it...
On this fourth post from the series on think tanks and universities, Arif Naveed analyses the relationship between these two types of organisations in Pakistan, India and...
Collaboration between think tanks and universities is essential to knowledge production. However, certain elements can make this relationship difficult. In this third post...
Despite representing 10% of the world’s population, research shows that Latin America produces less than 3% of the world’s scientific knowledge. Collaboration between...
This is the first post from a series on Think Tanks and Universities. In this post, Peter Taylor reflects on the challenges of selecting beneficiaries that apply for...
Think tanks and universities can work together to maximise the impact of the latter's research. They may also undertake research together and can provide interesting...
In 1998, in a text, that justifiably became well-known, Michael Gibbons argued that scientific production in the world was experimenting, towards the end of the 20th Century, a major...
A couple of months ago I published a couple of blogs about a new project funded by the TTI to study the relationship between think tanks and universities: Think...
The International Development Research Centre, IDRC, through its program Think Tank Initiative, TTI, seeks to generate and share knowledge on strategies to strengthen...
The Think Tank Initiative has recently launched a double call for studies on the relationship between think tanks and universities in Latin America and South...