CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
Global Sustainability. Timescales, Magnitudes, Paradigms and Black Swans
2012
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation
James J. Duderstadt, University of Michigan 2012 We live in a time of great change, an increasingly global society, driven by the exponential growth of new knowledge and knitted together by rapidly evolving information and communication technologies. It is a time of...
The Innovation Society: Canada’s Next Chapter
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Heather Munroe-Blum, McGill University 2010 The story of Canada’s innovation strategy begins with two key measurements: 1. Since 1990, Canada has ranked first fully eight times in the United Nation’s Human Development Index, which examines health, education and income...
Technological Innovation in the 21st Century
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Chuck Vest, MIT Cambridge 2010 The early years of the 21st century have found the U.S., Europe and Asia increasingly committed to technology-based innovation as the road to economic prosperity. Every CEO has had a catchphrase to this effect on his or her tongue....
Singapore: Successful in Research, Striving for Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation
Bertil Andersson, European Science Foundation 2010 Across the World, governments subscribe to the thesis that investment in research is a worthwhile public good for a number of reasons. Such investments are generally predicated on the view that research will lead...
Community Engagement as Social Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Human Resources, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation
Ellen Hazelkorn, Dublin Institute of Technology 2010 In 1992, Francis Fukyama reflected in The End of History and the Last Man on the transformative events signified by the collapse of the Berlin Wall. He argued that What we may be witnessing is not just the end of...
KAUST: An International, Independent, Graduate Research University
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Fawwaz T. Ulaby, KAUST 2010 Education, research and economic development are among the highest priorities established by King Abdullah for Saudi Arabia. An equally important overriding priority for him is the development of women for greater participation in the...
Research and Innovation in Latin America
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Juan Ramon de la Fuente, University of Alcala 2010 While Latin America has achieved relative economic stability and growth over the past decade (37.7% for 1998-2008), as the global financial struck the productive sectors of the economy through a drop in demand from...
Industry as a Catalyst of Innovation
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Human Resources, Research & Innovation
Wayne Johnson, HP University Relations Worldwide 2010 Success today hinges on our abilities to harness human potential, combine creativity with new knowledge and ensure economic impact is quickly derived from money spent on research. U.S. strength continues to lie in...
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....
Curiosity and the Transformative Impact of Fundamental Scientific Research
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Jean-Lou Chameau, Caltech 2010 Starting with the rise of Silicon Valley in the 1960s and 70s, the different stakeholders associated with U.S. research universities have emphasized and nurtured the relationship between scientific research and technological innovation...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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