Learning to Compete in European Universities: From Social Institution to Knowledge Business

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Maureen McKelvey, Magnus Holmén
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2010 - Education - 392 pages
Anglo-Saxon universities particularly in the US, the UK and Australia have long been subject to, and responded to, market-based competition in higher education.
 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Exploring university alliances and comparable academic cooperation structures
19
merger and the 2015 agenda at the University of Manchester
48
MAX lab within Lund University
65
5 Division of academic labour is limited by the size of the market Strategy and differentiation of European universities in doctoral education
90
structural characteristics and positioning
128
7 The American experience in university technology transfer
161
evidence on France Italy and Sweden from the KEINS database
187
attitudes and skills in academic commercialization in Sweden
219
10 Elite European universities and the RD subsidiaries of multinational enterprises
251
11 Running the marathon
278
12 What does it mean conceptually that universities compete?
300
13 From social institution to knowledge business
329
Index
357
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