TLCR is endorsed by the Spanish Lung Cancer Group(SLCG): new horizons for strong academic collaboration in lung cancer

From November 1,2013, Translational Lung Cancer Research （TLCR） is officially endorsed by the Spanish Lung Cancer Group （Figure 1）. This is a meaningful milestone for TLCR as an acknowledgment of its expansion and dedication to lung cancer research and will tremendously advance its continued exploration in the field.

Enhancing nursing education via academiceclinical partnership:An integrative review

A competent nursing workforce is important for an effective healthcare system.However,concerns on the poor quality of nursing care and poor competencies among nursing students,nurses,and midwives are increasing in Malawi.Anecdotal notes from stakeholders show shortfalls in nursing education.Furthermore,a large gap between theory and practice exists.This study described the role of academiceclinical partnership in strengthening nursing education.A search of ScienceDirect,PubMed,Medline,and PsychINFO on EBCSOhost and Google Scholar was conducted using the following key words:academic eclinical collaboration,academiceclinical partnership,academic practitioner gap,and college hospital partnership or/and nursing.Furthermore,peer reviewed reports on academiceclinical partnership in nursing were included in the search.Thirty-three records from 2002 to 2016 were reviewed.Six themes emerged from the review:mutual and shared goals,evidence-based practice,resource sharing and collaboration,capacity building,partnership elements,and challenges of academic clinical partnership.The review highlighted that academicepractice partnerships promote shared goal development for the healthcare system.The gap between theory and practice is reduced by the sharing of expertise and by increasing evidence-based practice.Academic clinical partnership improves competencies among students and the safety and health outcomes of patients.The study concluded that the nursing education implemented within an academic clinical partnership becomes relevant to the needs and demands of the healthcare system.

Independent technical directors and their effect on corporate innovation in China

As outside advisors,independent directors serve as both consultants and monitors.Based on empirical studies of corporate innovation and independent directors,we used data from listed firms in China from 2007 to 2017 to examine the effect of hiring independent technical directors on the board of directors.This study focused on a firm’s innovation performance and the extent to which this performance is influenced by the relevance of a director’s expertise to the activities of the firm.The results show that when the technical expertise of an independent director is relevant to the operational field of the firm,the firm should perform better in terms of innovation.This result is still significant when applying the two-stage instrumental variable method,showing a higher significance when using the exogenous event of the 2014 Wenfeng.plc case.Moreover,independent technical directors influence innovation primarily by encouraging firms to deepen their current field of research rather than expanding to other fields.Our findings can guide corporations to hire more relevant independent technical directors and can help the government design more accurate policies that promote innovation and entrepreneurship.