CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
The Innovation Society: Canada’s Next Chapter
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Heather Munroe-Blum, McGill University 2010 The story of Canada’s innovation strategy begins with two key measurements: 1. Since 1990, Canada has ranked first fully eight times in the United Nation’s Human Development Index, which examines health, education and income...
Technological Innovation in the 21st Century
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Chuck Vest, MIT Cambridge 2010 The early years of the 21st century have found the U.S., Europe and Asia increasingly committed to technology-based innovation as the road to economic prosperity. Every CEO has had a catchphrase to this effect on his or her tongue....
Singapore: Successful in Research, Striving for Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Bertil Andersson, European Science Foundation 2010 Across the World, governments subscribe to the thesis that investment in research is a worthwhile public good for a number of reasons. Such investments are generally predicated on the view that research will lead...
Community Engagement as Social Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Human Resources, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation
Ellen Hazelkorn, Dublin Institute of Technology 2010 In 1992, Francis Fukyama reflected in The End of History and the Last Man on the transformative events signified by the collapse of the Berlin Wall. He argued that What we may be witnessing is not just the end of...
KAUST: An International, Independent, Graduate Research University
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Fawwaz T. Ulaby, KAUST 2010 Education, research and economic development are among the highest priorities established by King Abdullah for Saudi Arabia. An equally important overriding priority for him is the development of women for greater participation in the...
Learning in/for a World of Constant Flux: Homo Sapiens, Homo Faber & Homo Ludens revisited
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
John S. Brown, University of Southern California 2010 The educational needs of the 21st century pose a number of serious problems for current educational practices. First and foremost, we see the 21st century as a time that is characterized by constant change...
INTRODUCTION: Respice, Prospice Higher Education A Decennial Review
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Frank Rhodes, Cornell University 2010 If “[a] week”, as the late British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once pointedly remarked, “is a long time in politics”, so also, a decade is a long time in higher education. It represents the graduation of two or three generations...
Industry as a Catalyst of Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Human Resources, Research & Innovation
Wayne Johnson, HP University Relations Worldwide 2010 Success today hinges on our abilities to harness human potential, combine creativity with new knowledge and ensure economic impact is quickly derived from money spent on research. U.S. strength continues to lie in...
Research and Innovation in Latin America
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Juan Ramon de la Fuente, University of Alcala 2010 While Latin America has achieved relative economic stability and growth over the past decade (37.7% for 1998-2008), as the global financial struck the productive sectors of the economy through a drop in demand from...
Injecting Relevance to make Innovation more Impactful at Universities
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Gururaj Deshpande, Sparta Group 2010 After a short tenure in teaching at universities, I have pursued an entrepreneurial career since 1980. Nine years ago, when I joined the MICorporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I got reconnected back to the academic world....
Curiosity and the Transformative Impact of Fundamental Scientific Research
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Jean-Lou Chameau, Caltech 2010 Starting with the rise of Silicon Valley in the 1960s and 70s, the different stakeholders associated with U.S. research universities have emphasized and nurtured the relationship between scientific research and technological innovation...
Transforming an Economy through Research and Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Russel Jones & Arif Al Hammadi, Khalifa University 2010 In the race to diversify their economies beyond oil and gas predominance, several Middle East Countries are moving to develop “knowledge-based” economies. Higher education, particularly in technical areas,...
Team Players to Shape our Future: Do our Students Learn the Right Skills?
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Human Resources, Teaching & Learning
Ralph Eichler, ETHZ 2010 Education is the key for success and welfare of a country. Figure 1 shows the correlation between the wealth intensity and the number of citations in scientific journals. Switzerland is among the top nations. It has a special, so-called dual...
On Innovation Strategies: An Asian Perspective
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Nam Pyo Suh, KAIST 2010 Innovation has become the buzzword of the 21st century and even more so now after the current economic meltdown, as nations around the world have the enormous task of rebuilding their economies. It is generally agreed that innovation refers to...
Summary of University Research for Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Preface and Conclusion
James J. Duderstadt, Luc E. Weber 2010 The first session began with the observation that it was precisely a century ago, in 1908, that Schumpeter introduced the terms “innovation” and “entrepreneurism” into economics at both the University of Vienna and Harvard,...
the Glion Colloquium
Representing a diverse range of backgrounds, regions and disciplines, our participants come from a variety of universities and countries, united by a shared passion for innovation and excellence in higher education in the service of society.
