Hohe Standards in Forschung und Lehre zu sichern, ist die vornehmste Aufgabe der Hochschulen. Die Sicherung der Qualität erfolgt nicht mehr nur mit dem traditionellen Instrument einer verantwortlichen Berufungspolitik von Professoren. Zunehmend werden neue Instrumentarien entwickelt, die...

This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,...

"Universities play essential roles in Canadian society. The internal and external governance of these complex institutions faces ever-evolving challenges within a rapidly shifting international context. Written by a national team of scholars, University Governance in Canada asks how...