CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
Technology and Humanity for Industry 4.0 and Learning 4.0
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Universities as Curators of Knowledge
2018
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Lino Guzzella and Gerd Folkers, ETH Zurich 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...
Open Science: A Global Enterprise
2018
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Luc Henry and Martin Vetterli 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...
Discipline-based Research and inter-/transdisciplinary as Mission
2018
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Bernhard Eitel, University of Heidelberg 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...
Global Research Collaboration: a Vital Resource in a Turbulent World
2018
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Meric S. Gertler 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,...
Creating shared value through open innovation
2016
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation
Stefan Catsicas, Nestlé 2016 “For a company to be successful over the long term and create value for shareholders, it must also create value for society. At Nestlé, this begins with the creation of superior long-term value for shareholders by offering products and...
Cities, research universities and the economic geography of innovation
2016
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation
Meric Gertler, University of Toronto 2016 Within the past decade, an increasingly pervasive view argues that“the world is flat”, and that location matters less and less whenit comes to economic activity (Friedman, 2005). Information and communication technologies are...
Impact of technology on learning and scholarship
2016
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Arnoud de Meyer, Singapore Management University 2016 Recently I took on the challenge of teaching a course to Undergraduatestudents at Singapore Management University. It had been more than20 years since I had taught any Undergraduates, having spent most of my career...
Global research questions and institutional research strategies
2016
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation
Patrick Prendergast, Trinity College 2016 Two years ago, one of the authors (PJP) was at a conference in Seoul on“The Role and Responsibilities of Research Universities”, moderatinga session on “Higher Education and Strategic Knowledge Creation”. It was an intensive...
University research comes in many shapes
2016
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation
Carlos de Brito Cruz, Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2016 In “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, written in 1937, (Flexner, 1955) Abraham Flexner described a conversation with George Eastman:tured to ask him whom he regarded as the most useful worker in science in...
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