In particular, there is growing pressure on the institutions of higher education and research in developed economies to find and affirm their new role in the national innovation system, while their counterparts in developing economies need to define their role in supporting the emerging structures of the innovation system. [...] If anything, the development during the following years has added to the plight of the university system in the developed countries as well as in the developing world. [...] By examining the changing role of academic institutions within the contexts of innovation and economic growth and development, the project has aimed to establish a new and important con- ceptual and policy link between the work of development agencies, and the methodologies and approaches of national innovation policy and innovation agencies. [...] The rapid growth of the US economy in the 1990s resulted in a reconsideration of research policies worldwide, as the growth pattern was attributed to the strength of the research system and, in particular, the US. [...] The centrality of national political and economic space and of the national regulation of the mode of growth led to the emergence of many.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 10
- Part I: The Context 16
- 1 Background and Introduction 18
- 2 In Search of Excellence? An International Perspective on Governance of University Research 26
- 3 The Evolving Role of Universities in Economic Development: The Case of University–Industry Linkages 40
- Part II: Country Case Studies 66
- 4 Brazilian Universities and Their Contribution to Innovation and Development 68
- 5 Uruguay: Higher Education, National System of Innovation, and Economic Development in a Small Peripheral Country 92
- 6 Cuba: University, Innovation and Society: Higher Education in the National System of Innovation 112
- 7 Vietnam: Current Debates on the Transformation of Academic Institutions 134
- 8 China: Challenges for Higher Education in a High Growth Economy 158
- 9 Tanzania: The Evolving Role of Universities in Economic Development 186
- 10 South Africa: Reforming Higher Education and Transforming the National System of Innovation 208
- 11 Latvia: Repositioning of Academic Institutions in a Catching-Up Country 234
- 12 Russia: Universities in the Context of Reforming the National Innovation System 262
- 13 Germany: The Role of Universities in the Learning Economy 276
- 14 Developing Universities: The Evolving Role of Academic Institutions in Denmark 298
- 15 The Role of Academic Institutions in the National System of Innovation and the Debate in Sweden 322
- Part III: Synthesis 342
- 16 The Three Missions of Universities: A Synthesis of UniDev Project Findings 344
- About the Authors 368
- Index 376
- A 376
- B 376
- C 376
- D 377
- E 377
- F 377
- G 377
- H 377
- I 378
- J 378
- K 378
- L 378
- M 378
- N 379
- O 379
- P 379
- Q 379
- R 379
- S 380
- T 380
- U 381
- V 381
- W 381
- Z 381
