Universities as Centres of Research and Knowledge Creation. An Endangered Species?

Sonst. Personen	Vessuri, Hebe (Hrsg.); Teichler, Ulrich (Hrsg.)
Titel	Universities as Centres of Research and Knowledge Creation. An Endangered Species?
Quelle	Rotterdam; Taipei: Sense Publ. (2008), VIII, 269 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Global Perspectives on Higher Education. 12
Beigaben	Abbildungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-90-8790-478-4
Schlagwörter	Entwicklungsland; Welt; Afrika; Asien; China; Europa; Indien; Kanada; Komoren; Malaysia; Marokko; Niederlande; Polen; Puerto Rico
Abstract	Based on contributions to the Colloquium authors from twenty countries from all regions of the world analyse aspects related to the research function of universities. Contents: 1. Vessuri, Hebe/Teichler, Ulrich: Introduction. - 2. Weiler, Hans N./Guri-Rosenblit, Sarah/Sawyerr, Akilagpa: Universities as Centres of Research and Knowledge Creation. An Endangered Species? Summary report. - 3. Bienenstock, Arthur: Essential Characteristics of Research Universities. - 4. Zakri, Abdul Hamid: Research Universities in the 21st Century - Global Challenges and Local Implications. - 5. Xue, Lan: China's Evolving National Innovation System - The Role of Universities. - 6. Massaquoi, Joseph: Science and Technology Human Resource Capacity Building in Africa - the role of regional cooperation. - 7. Yutronic, Jorge: University Based Applied R&D. Promising results and new challenges - a regional perspective. - 8. Aponte-Hernández, Eduardo/Molina-Iturrondo, Ángeles: Research and Knowledge Creation in the Caribbean for Endogenous Development and Building Autonomous Knowledge Societies. The University of Puerto Rico and Beyond. - 9. Bellakhdar, Abdelhak: Academic Lapses in Knowledge Production - Morocco's Universities. - 10. Gahama, Joseph: The Universities of the Great Lakes Region of East Africa. Towards Cooperative and Shared Research. - 11. Razak, Dzulkifli Abdul/Mohamed, Ramli: Promoting R&D within the constraints of managing a teaching university. The case of Universiti Sains Malaysia. - 12. Kreimer, Pablo/Meyer, Jean-Baptiste: Equality in the Networks? Some are More Equal than Others. - 13. Nouroudine, Abdallah: Research in the Comoros. The Stakes, in Theory and in Practice. - 14. Chen, Yang/Sanders, Richard/Wang, Jinmin: The Commercialisation of Chinese Universities and its Effects on Research Capacity. - 15. Siemienska, Renata: Research Productivity in Polish Universities and its Determinants at the Beginning of the 21st Century. - 16. Bernatchez, Jean: Social innovation and the University in Quebec. The Challenge of Operationalising a Polysemic Concept. - 17. Leisyte, Liudvika: The Effects of New Public Management on Research Practices in English and Dutch Universities. - 18. Varghese, George: Declining Trend in Science Education and Research in Indian. - 19. Ribeiro, Renato Janine: How Universities Could Stop Being an Endangered Species and Become a Major Player in a New World. - 20. Khasawneh, Mohammed A./Owais, Wajih M./Malkawi, Abdallah I. Husein: Gearing Academic Research Endeavours Towards Achieving Sustainable Development in Third World Countries. - 21. Papoutsaki, Evangelia: The Need for Local Research Approaches. De-Westernising Research Methodologies for Higher Education Curricula in Developing Countries (HoF/text adopted).
Erfasst von	Institut für Hochschulforschung (HoF) an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Update	2012/1