Higher education functions in a global environment of consumers, employees, competitors, and partners. It has been a force for globalization and a model for adaptation, but nonetheless faces challenges. This volume of essays examines emerging issues and opportunities for advancing education...

This book addresses the critical issue of how and why European universities are changing and learning to compete. Anglo-Saxon universities particularly in the US, the UK and Australia have long been subject to, and responded to, market-based competition in higher education. The authors argue...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Universities and the matter of mattering (Pauline Mattsson) -- Chapter 2. Engaging in societal collaboration through reflexivity: Experiences from a cross-disciplinary pilot course for faculty (Anna Jonsson) -- Chapter 3. Proximity and Inequality in Academia (Annika...

Contents: Foreword -- 1. Introduction: From diversity of interpretations to sustainability of institutions / Päivi Eriksson, Ulla Hytti, Katri Komulainen, Tero Montonen and Päivi Siivonen -- Higher education policy and administration on the move -- 2. The role of European Union in creating...

Contents: 1. Introduction / Katalin Erdős and Attila Varga -- Part I: Universities as actors in regional development -- 2. A history of the American land-grant universities and regional development / Nathan M. Sorber -- 3. The second academic revolution : antecedents and consequences of...

1. Re-building University Capabilities: Public Policy Implications to Innovation and Technology -- 2. Re-building Universities Capabilities: Managerial Implications to Innovation and Technology -- 3. Re-building University Entrepreneurial Capabilities: A Theoretical Approach -- 4. Re-building...

Forward -- Introduction -- Part I: Inter-Firm Cooperation and (Regional) Clusters -- Part II: Entrepreneurial Activities, Innovation and Regional Networks -- Part III: Knowledge Transfers Between University and Industry