National research systems face an increasingly competitive environment for ideas, talent and funds, and governments have shifted funds from institutional core funding to project funding, often on a competitive basis, or reward success in raising third-party funds in performance-based funding...

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...

Countering recent arguments that we should "unbundle" or "disrupt" higher education, Jason Owen-Smith argues that research universities are unique gems that deserve our financial and social support. While they are complex and costly, their enduring value is threefold: they simultaneously act as...

Der Band beinhaltet die Vorträge des Symposiums der Karl Heinz Beckurts-Stiftung am 21./22.10.1996 in Bonn. Inhalt: Afting, Ernst-Günter: Globalisierung der Forschung in pharmazeutischen Unternehmen. - Albach, Horst:Wirtschaftspolitische und technologiepolitische Folgen der Globalisierung. -...

I examine and document how the Endless Frontier changed the research landscape at universities and how universities responded to the initiative. I show that the agencies it established and funded initially recruited research proposals from faculty and applications from students for fellowships...

I examine and document how the Endless Frontier changed the research landscape at universities and how universities responded to the initiative. I show that the agencies it established and funded initially recruited research proposals from faculty and applications from students for fellowships...