Inhalt: Gauger, Jörg-Dieter: Zum Geleit. - Lieberknecht, Christine: Grußwort. - Vogel, Bernhard: Eine neue bildungspolitische Debatte tut not. - Pätzold, Horst: Die Situation der Hochschule und Hochschulneugründungen in den neuen Ländern - eine problemorientierte Bilanz. - Mehlig, Johannes:...

Finnish university technology transfer is currently caught in the turbulences of major changes in the national innovation system. Three virtually simultaneous changes are of special importance. The first is the massive on-going renewal of the Universities Act governing the Finnish higher...

Introduction / David D. Dill, Frans A. Van Vught -- Australia / V. Lynn Meek, Leo Goedegebuure, Jeannet Van Der Lee -- Canada / Donald Fisher, Kjell Rubenson -- Japan / Akira Arimoto -- The European Union / Frans A. Van Vught -- Finland / Seppo Hölttä -- Germany / Jürgen Enders -- The...

A new kind of uprising at Berkeley -- The lessons of history -- The birth of the market-model U -- The republic of science in turmoil -- Are conflicts of interest hazardous to our health? -- The university as business -- Dreaming of Silicon Valley -- Paying more for less : the commercial squeeze...