Universities as centres of research and knowledge creation : : an endangered species? / / edited by Hebe Vessuri and Ulrich Teichler.
Today, unprecedented emphasis is being placed on research as key motor for advancing the knowledge society and its offspring, the knowledge economy. Consequently, “research on the state of research” has moved high on the priority agendas for governments, for their specialized agencies and bodies dev...
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| Superior document: | Global Perspectives on Higher Education ; Volume 12 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Global perspectives on higher education ;
Volume 12. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Hebe Vessuri and Ulrich Teichler
- Research in the University: Contextual Sub-Optimisation or Epistemic Subordination? / Hebe Vessuri and Ulrich Teichler
- Universities as Centres of Research and Knowledge Creation: An Endangered Species? Summary Report / Hans N. Weiler , Sarah Guri-Rosenblit and Akilagpa Sawyerr
- Essential Characteristics of Research Universities / Arthur Bienenstock
- Research Universities in the 21st Century: Global Challenges and Local Implications / Abdul Hamid Zakri
- China’s Evolving National Innovation System – The Role of Universities / Lan Xue
- Science and Technology Human Resource Capacity Building in Africa – The Role of Regional Cooperation / Joseph G. M. Massaquoi
- University Based Applied R&D: Promising Results and New Challenges – a Regional Perspective / Jorge Yutronic
- Research and Knowledge Creation in the Caribbean for Endogenous Development and Building Autonomous Knowledge Societies: The University of Puerto Rico and Beyond / Eduardo Aponte-Hernández and Ángeles Molina-Iturrondo
- Academic Lapses in Knowledge Production: Morocco’s Universities / Abdelhak Bellakhdar
- The Universities of the Great Lakes Region of East Africa: Towards Cooperative and Shared Research / Joseph Gahama
- Promoting R&D Within the Constraints of Managing a Teaching University: The Case of Universiti Sains Malaysia / Dzulkifli Abdul Razak and Ramli Mohamed
- Equality in the Networks? Some are More Equal than Others / Pablo Kreimer and Jean-Baptiste Meyer
- Research in the Comoros: The Stakes, in Theory and in Practice / Abdallah Nouroudine
- The Commercialisation of Chinese Universities and its Effects on Research Capacity / Yang Chen , Richard Sanders and Jinmin Wang
- Research Productivity in Polish Universities and its Determinants at the Beginning of the 21st Century / Renata Siemieńska
- Social Innovation and the University in Quebec: The Challenge of Operationalising a Polysemic Concept / Jean Bernatchez
- The Effects of New Public Management on Research Practices in English and Dutch Universities / Liudvika Leišytė
- Declining Trend in Science Education and Research in Indian Universities / George Varghese
- How Universities Could Stop Being an Endangered Species and Become a Major Player in a New World / Renato Janine Ribeiro
- Gearing Academic Research Endeavours Towards Achieving Sustainable Development in Third World Countries / Abdallah I. Husein Malkawi , Wajih M Owais and Mohammed A. Khasawneh
- The Need for Local Research Approaches: De-Westernising Research Methodologies for Higher Education Curricula in Developing Countries / Evangelia Papoutsaki
- Contributors / Hebe Vessuri and Ulrich Teichler
- The Unesco forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge Publications / Hebe Vessuri and Ulrich Teichler
- Global Perspectives on Higher Education / Hebe Vessuri and Ulrich Teichler.