CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
Innovation strategies of European Universities in the Triangle of Education, Research and Innovation
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Georg Winckler, University of Vienna 2010 In Europe, the first university started in Bologna in 1088 as “universitas magistrorum et scholarium”, a community of teachers and students. Its legitimacy was derived from a humanistic program; its activities consisted in...
New University Paradigms for Technological Innovation
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
James J. Duderstadt, University of Michigan 2010 In today’s global, knowledge-driven economy, leadership in innovation is essential to a nation’s prosperity and security. In particular, technological innovation — the transformation of new knowledge into products,...
The Research University as Comprehensive Knowledge Enterprise
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Michael Crow, Arizona State University 2010 While the Glion Colloquia have brought university leaders together to exchange perspectives on an array of critical issues confronting higher education, perhaps none is more imperative to consider than the role of the...
The Next decade, a Challenge for Technological and Societal Innovations
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Luc E. Weber, University of Geneva 2010 About 25 years ago, the world entered a period that we can call — although it is not brutal or quasi-instantaneous, but progressive — a revolution, which is rooted in political and economic, as well as scientific and...
Universities and the Innovative Spirit
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Preface and Conclusion
Glion Declaration II 2010 As we approach the end of the first decade of the new millennium, it is useful to review the road that our global community has travelled. The dawn of the new millennium was a time not only of celebration, but also of optimism and hope....
BILDUNG and Innovation — a Contradictio in Adjecto for Today’s University Education
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Dieter Lenzen, Free University of Berlin 2010 I do think that the terms Bildung and innovation can be contradictory, at least they express the inner conflict felt by a person, who is responsible for change in an institution — the university — and therefore for...
Preface to University Research for Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
2010 In June 2009, university and industry leaders from around the world gathered in Glion-above-Montreux, Switzerland, at the VII Glion Colloquium to consider the role of research universities in an innovationdriven, global society. Launched in 1998 by Professors Luc...
The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Research Universities in Developing Countries
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Jamil Salmi, World Bank Tertiary Education 2010 Preoccupations about university rankings reflect the general recognition that economic growth and global competitiveness are increasingly driven by knowledge and that universities play a key role in that context....
The German Excellence Initiative: Changes, Challenges and Chances
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Bernd Huber, Ludwig Maximilian University 2010 For more than 200 years, the German university system has followed the ideas of Wilhelm von Humboldt — the unity of research and teaching, the freedom of teaching being the most important of Humboldt’s principles. These...
National Innovation Policies Governments as Innovation Agents of Higher Education and Research
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Frans Van Vught, University of Twente 2010 There is widespread agreement among economists that international forces have changed the nature of economic development (Soete, 2006). National markets have become increasingly interrelated, and goods, services, capital,...
Hi-Tech Industry and Universities: A Perspective on Dating for Joint Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership
Michel Bénard, HP University Relations 2010 As recorded since the very beginning of our written history, knowledge has been progressing by accumulating the experience of past and present generations (Van Doren, 1991). The creation of new knowledge has been performed...
Response of Chinese Higher Education and SJTU to Globalization
2008
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
Jie Zhang, Shanghai Jia Tong University 2008 Globalization means more competition and that a nation’s investment, production and innovation are not limited by its borders. Internationalization, according to Levin (2001), is one set of behaviour influenced by...
Doing Good by Doing Little: University Responsibility in a Violent Setting
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
John Waterbury, American University in Lebanon 2008 Lebanon’s very name evokes images of civil strife and destruction, of a society almost hopelessly divided and open to exploitation by state and non state actors well beyond its borders. It is estimated that as many...
Japanese University Reform
2008
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Yuko Harayama-Yost, Tohoku University 2008 In order to understand the radical changes that Japanese universities have been undergoing in recent years, the observer has to keep in mind three essential facts: the demographic factor as an engine behind the changes, the...
The Challenge to European Universities in the Emerging Global Marketplace
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...
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