by LW | Jan 1, 2014 | Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Luc E. Weber, University of Geneva 2014 Higher education (HE), more than most other goods or services, can be provided either by the public sector or the market. It can be also paid for either by the State (the taxpayers or lenders) or by private interests...
by LW | Jan 1, 2014 | Chapters and other contributions, Preface and Conclusion
James Duderstadt, University of Michigan Luc Weber, University of Geneva 2014 The Colloquium was organized into five topical sessions: • the changing purpose, role and relationship of research universities • the changing nature of discovery, learning and innovation •...
by GK | Jan 1, 2012 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Preface and Conclusion
James J. Duderstadt, Luc E. Weber, Glion Colloquium 2012 The VIII Glion Colloquium was held in June 2011 to consider the roles that could be played by the world’s research universities in addressing the various challenges of global sustainability in the broadest...
by GK | Jan 1, 2012 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Luc Weber, Université de Genève 2012 Imagine you are an economic historian writing at the end of the 21st century about the second half of the 20th and first decade of the 21st. You will probably write that this period was characterized by an unprecedented increase in...
by GK | Jan 1, 2010 | Chapters and other contributions, Preface and Conclusion
James J. Duderstadt, Luc E. Weber 2010 The first session began with the observation that it was precisely a century ago, in 1908, that Schumpeter introduced the terms “innovation” and “entrepreneurism” into economics at both the University of Vienna and Harvard,...
