by LW | Jan 1, 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,...
by GK | Jan 1, 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...
by LW | Jan 1, 2016 | Glion Book
Luc E. Weber and James J. Duderstadt (eds) Economica, Glion Colloquium Series Nr. 9, London, Paris, Genève (2016) Two dozen leaders of the world’s most distinguished universities gathered in Glion-above-Montreux, Switzerland, to compare how their institutions best...