Wenner - Gren International Series Volume 84
The University in the Market
Edited by Lars Engwall and Denis Weaire
Year of publication: 2008ISBN: 978-185578-168-9
The modern university has been brought into close engagement with the commercial and industrial market. This volume presents the views of leading European experts, regarding the threats and opportunities presented by this accelerating trend. How are ancient traditions and values to be adapted to new corporate models? Is academic freedom at risk? What sort of institution will emerge from the present period of uncertainty? This book will be of interest to scholars of higher education, knowledge management and technology transfer as well as to policy makers, university leaders and corporate scientific directors.
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
Part I: Setting the scene
Brian Heap
The university: a multinational corporation?
Lars Engwall
Constructing universities as strategic actors: limitations and variations
Richard Whitley
What does the ‘market’ mean for the university?
Ulrich Teichler
Part II: Markets for ideas
Keeping science competitive in GermanyMatthias Kleiner
Intellectual property versus academic freedom? A complex relationship within the innovation ecosystem
Joseph Straus
Intellectual property and Irish universities
Eoin P. O’Neill
Part III: Markets for collaboration
The current status and the future of universities within society
Günter Stock
Kevin Cullen
From tech transfer to knowledge exchange: European universities in the marketplace
Stephen Hagen
Industry needs universities and vice versa
Yrjö Neuvo
Part IV: Concluding Perspectives
What does the public think about all this?Eddie Holt
University autonomy: a matter of political rhetoric?
Thorsten Nybom
University marketization: the process and its limits
Linda Wedlin
