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Technology and Humanity for Industry 4.0 and Learning 4.0
2020

by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation

Subra Suresh Scientific discoveries and engineering innovation are accelerating the unprecedented convergence of the physical, digital and biological worlds to produce technological advances that are poised to disrupt and transform the daily lives of ordinary citizens...

Maintaining excellence in unstable times
2020

by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation

Leszek Borysiewicz The topic of this presentation is immediately current, even as I write this short summary. We sit at the beginning of May 2019 in the UK without any resolution to the long-running national debate that sur-rounds Brexit. This debate has polarized...

Out of the Academic Echo Chamber: universities embracing innovation from unexpected places
2020

by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation

Alice P. Gast The sometimes-surprising trends of the last three years, from the rise of populism to the distrust of expertise, have led many to accuse the global elite, and academics in particular, of being out of touch with society and stuck in narrow “echo...

Pioneering Intellectuals and Innovation of Higher Education
2020

by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation

Jaeho Yeom CHALLENGES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. The 21st century is transforming the social modes of human civiliza-tion at an unprecedented scale and speed. Digitization is changing the world. The massive transformation of working behaviour,...

Science systems under pressure: The entrepreneurial must of traditional universities in the 21st century
2020

by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation

Andrea Schenker-Wicki THE EVOLUTION OF UNIVERSITIES. After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century of the Common Era, the public education system almost completely disappeared, with just a few church schools remaining. It was not until centuries later, when...

University-based Innovation and Social Equity “Putting the moccasins back on the feet of our youth”
2018

by LW | Jan 1, 2018 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning

Tim Killeen 2018 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of these universities. For the last 800 years in Cambridge, new...
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