CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
Injecting Relevance to make Innovation more Impactful at Universities
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Gururaj Deshpande, Sparta Group 2010 After a short tenure in teaching at universities, I have pursued an entrepreneurial career since 1980. Nine years ago, when I joined the MICorporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I got reconnected back to the academic world....
Transforming an Economy through Research and Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Russel Jones & Arif Al Hammadi, Khalifa University 2010 In the race to diversify their economies beyond oil and gas predominance, several Middle East Countries are moving to develop “knowledge-based” economies. Higher education, particularly in technical areas,...
On Innovation Strategies: An Asian Perspective
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Nam Pyo Suh, KAIST 2010 Innovation has become the buzzword of the 21st century and even more so now after the current economic meltdown, as nations around the world have the enormous task of rebuilding their economies. It is generally agreed that innovation refers to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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