by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Robert. M. Berdahl, Association of American Universities 2008 Among the scores of books written during the past decade about globalization — so many, in fact, that some by different authors bear the same title 1 — none has captured as many readers as Thomas L. ...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Carlos H. Brito-Cruz, Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2008 Scientists in Brazil published 16,950 scientific articles in indexed journals in 2005. The country is the 17th-largest producer of science in the world. Nine out of ten of these articles were generated in...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Nam Pyo Suh, KAIST 2008 An important consequence of economic globalization is expected to be that only a few leading universities will dominate the world of higher education, just as a few companies are dominating different industrial sectors worldwide. Globalization...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Preface and Conclusion
James J. Duderstadt, Luc E. Weber 2008 Today our world has entered a period of rapid and profound economic, social and political transformation based upon an emerging new system for creating wealth that depends upon the creation and application of new knowledge and...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Carl Schramm, President Kauffman Foundation 2008 The global economy stands at a moment of extraordinary potential. The last three decades have produced steep gains in worldwide economic growth, led by a surge of innovative, entrepreneurial activity rooted in...
