The development of the knowledge economy is placing universities at the heart of economic and social development processes in relation to their teaching, research and outreach functions. This new engagement places pressure on universities to consider the need for internal transformations to make...

Le développement de l’économie du savoir place les universités au cœur du processus de mutation économique et sociale en rapport avec leurs fonctions d’enseignement, de recherche et d’ouverture. Ce nouvel engagement contraint les universités à considérer la nécessité de...

There has long been a tension between the roles of the university in servicing the needs of sub-national economies and civil societies, those of the national state and those of learning and the pursuit of knowledge in an abstract sense. The position in liberal democracies through much of the...