Today's universities are confronted with questions about the increasing scale of corporatisation and commercialisation, as well as their decreasing activity in the field of the social mission, i.e., engagement in the real problems of ordinary people, local communities and society at large. As a...

"This book seeks to fill the gap in research between universities and the public, and offers cutting-edge insight into the current state of the field, charting a course that moves from discussions of academic resistance and implications for knowledge-transfer theory to current case-studies of...

"This book seeks to fill the gap in research between universities and the public, and offers cutting-edge insight into the current state of the field, charting a course that moves from discussions of academic resistance and implications for knowledge-transfer theory to current case-studies of...

"This book provides a wide-ranging overview of the relationship between universities and organizations through the most recent and detailed research on university entrepreneurship"--Provided by publisher.