Collaborative Innovation between Shenzhen City Government and Tsinghua University

Global megatrends create a continuous need for transition. The increasing complexity this phenomenon brings calls the need for ecosystem orchestration that require collaboration.

Jointly founded by Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen Municipal Government, the Graduate School at Shenzhen in the People’s Republic of China plays an important role in Tsinghua's commitment to achieve international prominence in its aim to cultivate top level professionals and carry out scientific and technological innovations.

Essentials Over Peripherals: The Central Visayan Institute Foundation Dynamic Learning Program

With process-induced learning as its pedagogical approach, the Dynamic Learning Program of the Central Visayan Institute Foundation improves learner disposition through parallel learning groups, activity-based multi-domain learning, in-school comprehensive student portfolio, and strategic study and rest periods. The program fosters the development of independent learning, organized logical thinking, and collaboration and teamwork as thinking habits among students.

Mutual Gains in Stakeholder Negotiation and Consensus Building

To meet sustainable development challenges, public and private decision makers must respond to diverse and sometimes conflicting economic, environmental and social interests. The stakeholders in these challenges resist “trading off” their priorities for the sake of reaching an agreement or decision. In most societies, top-down decision making to resolve conflicts is less effective than efforts to engage stakeholders in dialogue, negotiation and consensus building.

University-Industry Linkages: Experiences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Facilitating the natural flow of knowledge generation and innovation to its logical conclusion through academia-industry-state (AIS) linkages leads to societal benefits. With the aim to catalyze entrepreneurship for positive socio-economic impact, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur’s AIS linkages provide a platform to start-ups and prospective entrepreneurs for converting their innovative ideas into commercially-viable products.