CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
Comprehensive Universities in Continental Europe: Falling Behind
2008
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Human Resources, Missions & Responsibilities
Georg Winckler, University of Vienna 2008 Universities in continental Europe have a long tradition of nearly one thousand years, incorporating the idea of the “Greek academia”. The foundation of universities spread rapidly throughout medieval Europe, with Bologna...
Developed Universities and the Developing World: Opportunities and Obligations
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. ...
Science and Technology in Brazil
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...
Globalization of Research Universities in Korea
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...
Reinvigorating Universities in an Entrepreneurial Age
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...
The Globalization of Higher Education
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...
Global Success: Real World Research ‘Meets’ Global Practitioners
2008
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Human Resources, Research & Innovation
Peter Lorange, IMD Lausanne 2008 In this chapter we will first discuss the intensified global competition that seems to be evident between academic institutions. We will then point out two dimensions that might enhance stronger academic value creation in this...
Globalization, Public Policies and Higher Education
2008
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
David Ward, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 Globalization and the attendant emergence of the global knowledge economy are exerting tremendous pressures on universities around the world and reshaping some of their basic assumptions and activities. Although...
The Responsibilities of Universities to Promote a Sustainable Society
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...
The Emerging Meta University
2008
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Chuck Vest, MIT Cambridge 2008 The 21st century is an age when we cannot compete nationalistically based on geography, natural resources or military might. Nations can only prosper and compete based on brainpower and innovation. Because brainpower and innovation...
The Engagement of Australian Universities with Globalization
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Teaching & Learning
John Niland, New South Wales University 2008 Despite the common image of isolated ivory towers, universities in point of fact have long embraced the world beyond their national horizon. Initially, scholars travelled from country to country in search of a student...
Globalization: What does it Mean for Higher Education?
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University 2008 Globalization is centre-stage in the contemporary world. It interests almost everyone. Education, alas, is back-stage somewhere in the midst of the props. It interests some of us. Globalization and education, together,...
Building Singapore’s University Education System in a Globalized World
2008
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Human Resources, Missions & Responsibilities
Tony Tan Keng Yam 2008 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...
An Open University for the 21st Century
2008
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
Brenda Gourley, Open University 2008 Many things have been forever changed by the forces of globalization that have swept the world in the last couple of decades. Higher Education is one of them. It has also been changed by the imperatives of a knowledge society, a...
Partnering on a Global Scale
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Human Resources, Research & Innovation
Wayne Johnson, HP University Relations Worldwide 2008 The past decade has brought tumultuous change to industry, effectively rewriting the assumptions and rules of how global business is conducted and of where to locate one’s operations and why. The advancement of...
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