Overview
- Guides comparative research on the academic profession and university reform in connection to the knowledge economy
- Builds upon the largest international and comparative study of higher education ever undertaken
- Provides a critical analysis of the ways in which selected national higher education systems are positioned within complex policy shifts
Part of the book series: The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective (CHAC, volume 22)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Overview
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Systems of Innovation and Higher Education
Keywords
- Cultural tradition of national school systems
- Canadian higher education systems
- Development and innovation policy
- Historical evolution of the knowledge society
- Higher Education in Mexico
- Higher Education in Finland
- Higher Education in Germany
- Higher Education in Lithuania
- Higher education in Portugal
- Higher education systems in Turkey
- Higher education in Uganda
- Knowledge production in the USA
- Knowledge economy in Estonia
- Norwegian research system
- OECD
- Role of the university sector
- STEM faculty in Chile
- Science and research policy in Brazil
- World Bank
About this book
Springer is proud to announce that 'Universities in the Knowledge Society' has received the ASHE-CIHE award for Significant Research on International Higher Education.
Congratulations to Timo Aarrevaara, Martin Finkelstein, Glen A. Jones, Jisun Jung and all contributors!
This book explores the complex, multi-faceted relationships between national research and innovation systems and higher education. The transition towards knowledge societies/economies is repositioning the role of the university and transforming the academic profession. The volume provides a foundational introduction to the concepts of knowledge society and knowledge economy, and these concepts ground the detailed case studies of eighteen systems, located across five continents. Each case study was written by a leading expert in that jurisdiction, and provides a critical analysis of the research and development infrastructure, the role of universities, and the implications for the academic profession. The book describes how nations in various geographic regions and at various stages of economic maturity are restructuring their university systems to adapt to the new imperatives, and provides a cross-case analysis identifying common themes and distinctive features.
In telling the story of higher education’s on-going global metamorphosis, the contributing authors place current developments in the context of the university’s historic evolution, survey the changing metrics that national governments are adopting to measure university performance, and describe a new international project, the Academic Profession in the Knowledge-based Society [APiKS] that involved a common survey of academics in more than twenty countries to take the pulse of developments “on the ground” while documenting the challenges confronting knowledge workers in the new economy.
Reviews
“With a wealth of comparative data on a few R&D and other indicators, and insightful analytical descriptions of several current issues in higher education, R&D, and knowledge economy, Universities in the Knowledge Society is a valuable addition to the existing research on comparative higher education and knowledge societies.” (Jandhyala B G Tilak, The Developing Economies, February 22, 2022)
“This volume is not only be of interest to those wishing to examine the changing nature of work in academia from an international standpoint, but the case-studies of each individual nation offer key insights into the effects of local and national interest as well as the nuances of cultural and societal needs in each geographic location. … This volume may arguably become a key text for those interested in exploring the knowledge society from an international perspective.” (Alison Elizabeth Jefferson, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies, Vol. 2 (4), 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Glen Jones is Professor of Higher Education and Dean, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. His research focuses on higher education governance, policy and academic work, and he has published more than 100 papers in the field of higher education. His recent books include Governance of Higher Education: Global Perspectives, Theories and Practices (Routledge, 2016, with Ian Austin), Doctoral Education for the Knowledge Society (Springer, 2018, with J.C. Shin and Barbara Kehm), Professorial Pathways (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019, with Martin Finkelstein), and International Education as Public Policy in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), with Merli Tamtik and Roopa Desai Trilokekar).
Jisun Jung is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong since 2015. Her current research focuses on academic profession, doctoral education in East Asia, and master’s education and employment. She is a co-editor of Higher Education Research & Development. Her recent books include Changing Academic Profession in Hong Kong (Springer, 2017, with Gerard Postiglione) and Researching Higher Education in Asia (Springer, 2018, with Hugo Horta and Akiyoshi Yonezawa).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Universities in the Knowledge Society
Book Subtitle: The Nexus of National Systems of Innovation and Higher Education
Editors: Timo Aarrevaara, Martin Finkelstein, Glen A. Jones, Jisun Jung
Series Title: The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76579-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76578-1Published: 29 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76581-1Published: 30 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76579-8Published: 28 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2214-5346
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0378
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 434
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Economics, general, Administration, Organization and Leadership