by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Missions & Responsibilities
Howard Newby, Liverpool University 2008 Although the topic for this paper implies a focus on Europe, the issues I want to address are by no means limited to that continent. Without wishing to minimize the significance of national differences and continental...
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 | 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, 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...
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
Luc Weber, University of Geneva 2008 We are living in a period of deep and rapid changes which are offering great hopes for peace and prosperity, but which are also the source of important challenges and even threats. The direction of change will depend on the...
