CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
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...
BILDUNG and Innovation — a Contradictio in Adjecto for Today’s University Education
2010
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Dieter Lenzen, Free University of Berlin 2010 I do think that the terms Bildung and innovation can be contradictory, at least they express the inner conflict felt by a person, who is responsible for change in an institution — the university — and therefore for...
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...
The Engagement of Australian Universities with Globalization
2008
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Teaching & Learning
John Niland, New South Wales University 2008 Despite the common image of isolated ivory towers, universities in point of fact have long embraced the world beyond their national horizon. Initially, scholars travelled from country to country in search of a student...
An Open University for the 21st Century
2008
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
Brenda Gourley, Open University 2008 Many things have been forever changed by the forces of globalization that have swept the world in the last couple of decades. Higher Education is one of them. It has also been changed by the imperatives of a knowledge society, a...
Universities as Content Providers
2008
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Dennis Tsichritzis, University of Geneva 2008 The main mission of the University was and still is Education. Naturally, Universities are also involved in many other activities like Research, Innovation, Incubation of small companies, services, etc. Education is,...
Universities, Businesses and Public Authorities
2006
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Marye A. Fox, North Carolina State University 2006 Read the full article
Obstacles to University–Industry Relations
2006
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Horst Soboll, EU Research Advisory Board 2006 Read the full article
Declining Interest in Engineering: Studies at a Time of Increased Business Need
2006
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Teaching & Learning
Wayne C. Johnson, HP University Relations; Russel C. Jones, University of Delaware 2006 Read the full article
Declining Demand among Students for Science and Engineering
2006
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Georg Winckler, University of Vienna 2006 Read the full article
Developing Ongoing Research and Learning Relationships
2006
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Peter Lorange, IMD 2006 Read the full article
University-Industry Collaborations
2006
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Klaus Müller, Hoffmann-La Roche 2006 Read the full article
The Modern University and its Main Activities
2004
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
André Oosterlinck, Catholic University of Leuven 2004 Read the full article
Reinventing the Research University_An American perspective
2004
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Bob Zemsky, University of Pennsylvania; James J. Duderstadt, University of Michigan 2004 Read the full article
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