Global Comparisons and the University Knowledge Economy

2010 ◽  
pp. 29-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Marginson
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Concepts and Roles of Faculty in the Palestinian Universities in the Light of Knowledge Economy

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Ahlam Mustafa Hasan Awajneh ◽  
Suhair Sulaiman Mohammed Sabbah ◽  
Inas Aref Saleh Naser
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Concepts Of Knowledge ◽  
Associate Teacher ◽  
Educational Degree ◽  
Palestinian Universities ◽  
The University

The study aims to recognizing the concepts of knowledge economy and the roles of faculty members in the light ofknowledge economy from the perspectives of its members, it was clear that the concept of the knowledge economywas high, it was (2.7,) and there were differences in years of experience in favor of (1-5 years) class, and in favor ofthe associate teacher in the educational degree, and the university in favor of Bier Ziet University. Whereas the meanof the faculty members’ roles was (2.26) with differences in gender in favor of the females and as for the university,in was in favor of Bier Ziet University.

scholarly journals The Wider Impacts of Universities: Habermas on Learning Processes and Universities

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesper Eckhardt Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Societal Impact ◽  
Functionalist Theory ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The discourse of reform in higher education tends to focus narrowly on employability and the relationship between higher education and the labor market. Universities as research institutions are now considered solely in the dominant discourse of innovation. This way of conceiving universities is inspired by functionalist theory that focuses on the imperatives of a knowledge economy. Taking a departure in the theory of society developed by Jürgen Habermas this paper seeks to provide a theoretical framework for an empirical comparative analysis on the wider societal impact of universities. It is the argument that the wider impacts of higher education and research at universities must be seen in a more complex vision of modern societies. The paper is thus primarily a re-reading of Habermas’ critique of functionalist views of the university and an application of Habermas’ critique on current issues in the debates on higher education. A special discussion will be taken on issues of the self in view of the current tendencies to regard all education from the standpoint of the economic outputs.

scholarly journals Conceptual Vision of the New University in the Works of Modern Scientists: Typology of the Concepts of Innovatisation of the Higher School

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-198
Author(s):  
O. B. Voeykova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
New Type ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The University ◽  
New Industry ◽  
Innovation In Higher Education

This article is devoted to solving the problem of systematizing the existing concepts of innovation in higher education, reflecting the new vision of the university by modern scientists. The author studied the content and conducted a comparative analysis of various concepts relating to the emergence of the future image of the University. First of all, these are the works of the classics of post-industrialism, who defined science and education as a new industry within the emerging knowledge economy and noted the need to form, in this regard, a new type of University. Important potential for understanding the role and place of the University, as well as to get an idea of its supposed (futuristic) model in the new realities have the concepts of innovatization of higher education, the analysis of which is given most of the article. Under the concepts of innovatization of higher education in the article we understand the concept of modern scientists who consider the transformation of the traditional University in its innovative model that meets the needs of the economy and society focused on innovation. The concepts of innovatization are also divided into several types, grouped according to the relevant features, which suggests the possibility of transition to the innovative model of the University in different ways.

scholarly journals On the role of the university in the knowledge economy

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Conceicao ◽  
Manuel V Heitor
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
The University

Institutional Transformations in the Regime of Knowledge Production: The University as a catalyst for the Science-Based Knowledge Economy

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Dzisah
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Public Versus Private ◽  
The University

AbstractAlthough, the process of the capitalization of academic scientific knowledge is not benign across university campuses, recent acceleration of the process have sparked debates in many circles. This debate mirrors two sets of issues-public versus private interests. While the discourse has shed some light on the socio-economic and political forces at work, it is not devoid of problems. The paper argues that the understanding of the university as a catalyst for the science-based knowledge economy should be built around the framework that the university like industry and government is responding to a wide range of socio-economic and political demands that cannot be delinked from each other. It contends that, in a period of an ever-increasing demand for science and technology, universities' as citadels of knowledge have through the capitalization of academic scientific knowledge become a catalyst for the science-based knowledge economy.

African Scholarship and its Integration within the Global Knowledge Economy : Reflections from within the University of KwaZulu-Natal

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Monica Njanjokuma Otu
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Space ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
African Worldview ◽  
Research Initiatives ◽  
The University

Over the decades there have been continuous efforts to position African scholarship within the global knowledge economy. Against the backdrop of marginalisation and domination, the champions of African scholarship have been engaged with political, ideological, and philosophical agendas that attempt to legitimise the African knowledge enterprise. Using an anthropological lens, this paper presents the nuanced local/global dialectics related to the recognition of African scholarship. The paper is based on the reflections of a selected number of academics of African origin from the College of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. It highlights their subjectivities towards the elusiveness of this concept and attempts to seek its relevance as a knowledge space within the global knowledge economy. Branded as the premier university of African scholarship, UKZN has embarked on vigorous curricular, pedagogical and research initiatives that seek to bring the meaningful transformation needed to position the institution as a truly African university. This meaningful transformation can only be achieved if knowledge production in on Africa is cognisant of an African worldview, encompassing African cosmological, ontological, and epistemological perspectives. Interviews with those who participated in this study revealed the need for African scholarship to go global. Although this was emphasised, the approach to it revealed three streams of scholars who are termed in this paper as the idealists, the moderates, and the extremists. Despite their varying subjectivities, the conclusion drawn from the interviews pays allegiance to Afrocentric paradigms as the only way African development can be achieved as it connects with other global knowledge systems.

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