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Book SynopsisUnisa 1873-2018: The making of a distance learning university presents a critical appraisal of Unisa’s transformation as it navigates the unfolding saga of South Africa’s political development. The history of Unisa is fraught with a complex, oft-times ambiguous and contradictory, relationship with the state.This official history of the University of South Africa provides a platform on which future narratives around Unisa can be constructed. As a distinctly colonial institution, Unisa was a site of friction between the colonial powers and nascent captive forces of Afrikaner nationalism and white supremacist ideology. The character of present day Unisa allows for the expression of alternative and dissenting opinions despite its proximity to a constitutionally crafted state in its pursuit of the `African university in service of humanity’. This is highlighted in the motifs of transformation, Africanisation and democratisation explored in the book.Unisa 1873-2018 captures the university’s transitions from an examining body to one that has fully embraced open distance and e-learning, more attuned to student needs. It delineates Unisa’s shift to a more representative and African orientated institution serving the needs of the continent.Table of Contents Abbreviations Preface Foreword By Professor M. Makhanya Introduction CHAPTER 1 The University of the Cape of Good Hope and Unisa, 1873–1946 CHAPTER 2 A.J.H. van der Walt: Higher education by correspondence, 1946–1956 CHAPTER 3 Samuel Pauw: Consolidation and expansion, 1956–1972 CHAPTER 4 Theo van Wijk: `A beacon of reasonableness’? 1972–1988 CHAPTER 5 Cas van Vuuren: Transition deferred, 1989–1993 CHAPTER 6 Marinus Wiechers: Transition and discord, 1994–1997 CHAPTER 7 Antony Melck: Steadying the Unisa ship, 1998–2001 CHAPTER 8 Barney Pityana: The African university in the service of humanity, 2002–2010 CHAPTER 9 Mandla Makhanya: Inculcating ethical values, 2011–2018 Afterword Bibliography Contributors

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Book SynopsisAsk practically any academic department chair why they do not have more African Americans among faculty members and they generally respond with stock stories or folktales, which stimulated the title of this volume. Stock stories are akin to grand narratives that explain 'why things are' in ways that satisfy those in dominant positions. Frierson and Tate argue it is time to move beyond these. The purpose of the book is to provide historical, conceptual, and empirically-based analyses focused on the development of African Americans in STEM fields. There is rarely any real understanding of the uneven contours of the education pipeline or the transition to academic life experienced in these situations and this volume will shed light on opportunities to advance African American attainment in STEM disciplines throughout the academic and professional spectra, and the mitigation of disparities that continue to be so prevalent. The editors hope that it will generate discussions and actions that are based on empirical evidence and policy analyses, rather than long standing stock stories and folktales that misrepresent the paths linked to African Americans' attainment in STEM fields.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Foreword. Chapter 1 Undergraduate Institutions that Foster Black Scientists. Chapter 2 African-American, Academically Gifted, Millennial Students in STEM Disciplines at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): Factors that Impact Successful Degree Completion. Chapter 3 African American Males in the Meyerhoff Scholars Program: Outcomes and Processes. Chapter 4 The Relationship Between Academic Self-Concept and Career Self-Efficacy Among African-American Males in STEM Disciplines at Two Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Exploratory Study. Chapter 5 Postsecondary Educational Aspirations and Expectations Among School-Age Black Males: Monitoring the Future of Black Men in STEM Fields. Chapter 6 Black Men in the STEM fields at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Chapter 7 Reflecting and Defying Tradition: African-American Women in STEM. Chapter 8 Black Women Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Perspectives for a National Imperative. Chapter 9 Successful PHD Pathways to Advanced STEM Careers for Black Women. Chapter 10 Sense of Belonging and African-American Student Success in STEM: Comparative Insights Between Men and Women. Chapter 11 Maximizing Returns on Public Investments: Mentoring African American Males in STEM Disciplines. Chapter 12 What Type of Institutions are Successful at Replicating the Diversity of the Full-Time Student Population in the Pool of Bachelor's Degrees Awarded for STEM-Disciplines?. Chapter 13 African American Faculty in Science and Engineering: The Illusion of Inclusion. Chapter 14 Future Faculty/Research Scientist Mentoring Program: Proven Coping Strategies for Successful Matriculation of African Americans in Computing Science Doctoral Programs. Chapter 15 Ten in 10: A Reflective Examination of how a University in the South Graduated 10 African American Computer Science Ph.D.s in 10 Years. Chapter 16 STEM Blind Spots: Moving Beyond Stock Stories and Folktales. Beyond Stock Stories and Folktales: African Americans’ Paths to STEM Fields. Diversity in higher education. Diversity in higher education. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisHistorically, women of color have experienced discrimination based on the double jeopardy of race and/or ethnicity, and gender in their quest for access and advancement in higher education. Today's women of color in higher education however are the beneficiaries of courageous and committed women predecessors who confronted and disrupted institutions to attain a higher level of education (Jean-Marie, 2005). Together with Volume 10, this two-edited volume focuses on African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian-Pacific American women whose increased presence in senior level administrative and academic positions in higher education is transforming the political climate to be more inclusive of women of color. Topics include trends and issues, leadership styles/characteristics, tenure and promotion, mentoring/social networks, and challenges and opportunities. As a conceptual framework, the collection of chapters in the two volumes acquaints readers with a broad overview of the characteristics and experiences of women of color in higher education. The two volumes include: "Women of Color in Higher Education: Turbulent Past, Promising Future" and "Women of Color in Higher Education: Contemporary Perspectives and Changing Directions".Trade Review"Women of Color tell their courageous stories about navigating what historically has been a male-dominated academy. They bring with them cultural strengths and experiences interwoven with mainstream credentials with which to create changed environments in academe that more adequately reflect the diversity of the 21st century world. Henrietta Mann, Ph.D., Founding President, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College. Professor Emeritus in Native American Studies, Montana State University" "Women of Color in Higher Education, in two volumes, provides a comprehensive and rich analysis of the progress and problems associated with participation of women in colleges and universities. With topics ranging from women in collegiate athletics to STEM, from African American, Latina to Asian and Native American women, from new leaders in colleges and universities to seasoned professionals, these volumes are just as critical for administrators and faculty as they are for women who aspire to a successful career in higher education. Anne S. Pruitt-Logan, Ed.D., Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University"Table of ContentsAcknowledgment. PROLOGUE. List of Contributors. Examining the “Present” Status of Women of Color. Chapter 1 “Unfinished Agendas”: Trends in Women of Color's Status in Higher Education. Chapter 2 Women of Color in Higher Education: Feminist Theoretical Perspectives. Chapter 3 Women of Color: Their Path to Leadership Makes for a Better Higher Education for All. Chapter 4 African American Females' Career Paths to the Presidency: Navigating the Glass Ceiling Challenge. Chapter 5 Woman(ist)s’ Work: The Experiences of Black Women Scholars in Education at Predominantly White Institutions. Chapter 6 Your Story is My Story: Examining the Research Literature on Black Women in Teacher Education. Chapter 7 Black Women Faculty in Educational Leadership: Unpacking their Silence in Research. Chapter 8 Advocacy in the Hyphen: Perspectives from Latina Junior Faculty at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Chapter 9 From Doctoral Students to Faculty: Chicanas' Articulation with Trauma in Academe. Chapter 10 Hispanic Women Administrators: Self-Efficacy Factors that Influence Barriers to their Success. Chapter 11 Latina Presidents: Making a Difference at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Chapter 12 Tribal Colleges: Cultural Support for Women Campus Presidencies. Chapter 13 Identity and Research: Exploring Themes of Scholarship of an American Indian Scholar in the Academy. Chapter 14 Asian American Women Faculty and the Contested Space of the Classroom: Navigating Student Resistance and (Re)Claiming Authority and their Rightful Place. Chapter 15 Few and Far between: Exploring the Experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander Women in Student Affairs Administration. Epilogue. About the Authors. Subject Index. Advertisement. Women of Color in Higher Education: Turbulent Past, Promising Future. Diversity in higher education. Diversity in higher education. Copyright page. Author Index.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive book provides a collection of the critical papers that have been published in the fast-growing field of the globalization of higher education. They include work by a variety of noted scholars, such as Altbach, Clark and Marginson, which cover key areas of theoretical and substantive interest. This volume, along with an original introduction, will be of relevance to academics, researchers and students undertaking higher education research, as well as to the wider social science and public policy communities.Trade Review‘Globalization represents one of the most compelling themes in modern higher education studies. This volume brings together a collection of the most thoughtful contributions over the last 15 years. Simon Marginson, himself the leading scholar in the field, provides a masterly introduction which will stand as a defining analysis of the importance of understanding its impact on higher education policies at all levels, local, national and international.’ Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Simon Marginson on behalf of the editors 1. Philip G. Altbach (2004), ‘Globalisation and the University: Myths and Realities in an Unequal World’ 2. Philip G. Altbach (2003), ‘Centers and Peripheries in the Academic Profession: The Special Challenges of Developing Countries’ 3. Eric Beerkens and Marijk Derwende (2007), ‘The Paradox in International Cooperation: Institutionally Embedded Universities in a Global Environment’ 4. Burton R. Clark (1998), ‘The Entrepreneurial University; Demand and Response’ 5. Rosemary Deem (2001), ‘Globalisation, New Managerialism, Academic Capitalism and Entrepreneurialism in Universities: Is the Local Dimension Still Important?’] 6. David D. Dill and Maarja Soo (2005), ‘Academic Quality, League Tables, and Public Policy: A Cross-National Analysis of University Ranking Systems’ 7. Jürgen Enders and Egbert de Weert (2004), ‘Science, Training and Career: Changing Modes of Knowledge Production and Labour Markets’ 8. Ewan Ferlie, Christine Musselin and Gianluca Andresani (2008), ‘The Steering of Higher Education Systems: A Public Management Perspective’ 9. Ellen Hazelkorn (2008), ‘Learning to Live with League Tables and Ranking: The Experience of Institutional Leaders’ 10. Mary Henkel (2005), ‘Academic Identity and Autonomy in a Changing Policy Environment’ 11. Nia Cai Liu and Ying Cheng (2005), ‘The Academic Ranking of World Universities’ 12. Kathryn Mohrman, Wanhua Ma and David Baker (2008), ‘The Research University in Transition: The Emerging Global Model’ 13. Christine Musselin (2005), ‘European Academic Labor Markets in Transition’ 14. Roger Patrick King (2007), ‘Governance and Accountability in the Higher Education Regulatory State’ 15. Simon Marginson (2011), ‘Higher Education in East Asia and Singapore: Rise of the Confucian Model’ 16. Simon Marginson (2008), ‘Global Fields and Global Imagining: Bourdieu and Worldwide Higher Education’ 17. Simon Marginson (2007), ‘The Public/Private Divide in Higher Education: A Global Revision’ 18. Simon Marginson (2006), ‘Dynamics of National and Global Competition in Higher Education’ 19. Simon Marginson and Gary Rhoades (2002), ‘Beyond National States, Markets, and Systems of Higher Education: A Glonacal Agency Heuristic’ 20. Tristan McCowan (2007), ‘Expansion Without Equity: An Analysis of Current Policy on Access to Higher Education in Brazil’ 21. Rajani Naidoo (2010), ‘Global Learning in a NeoLiberal Age: Implications for Development’ 22. Rajani Naidoo (2004), ‘Fields and Institutional Strategy: Bourdieu on the Relationship Between Higher Education, Inequality and Society’ 23. Richard R. Nelson (2004), ‘The Market Economy, and the Scientific Commons’ 24. Susan L. Robertson (2010), ‘The EU, “Regulatory State Regionalism” and New Modes of Higher Education Governance’ 25. Peter Scott (1998), ‘Massification, Internationalization and Globalization’ 26. Amartya Sen (1999), ‘Global Justice: Beyond International Equity’ 27. Ravinder Sidhu (2009), ‘The “Brand Name” Research University goes Global’ 28. Mala Singh (2001), ‘Re-Inserting the “Public Good” into Higher Education Transformation’ 29. Joseph E. Stiglitz (1999), ‘Knowledge as a Global Public Good’ 30. Ulrich Teichler (2004), ‘The Changing Debate on the Internationalisation of Higher Education’ 31. Elaine Unterhalter (2006), ‘New Times and New Vocabularies: Theorising and Evaluating Gender Equality in Commonwealth Higher Education’ 32. J. Välimaa (2004), ‘Nationalisation, Localisation and Globalisation in Finnish Higher Education’ 33. Jussi Välimaa and Marcila Mollis (2004), ‘The Social Functions of Evaluation in Argentine and Finnish Higher Education’ 34. Frans van Vught (2008), ‘Mission Diversity and Reputation in Higher Education’ 35. Marijk van der Wende (2008), ‘Rankings and Classifications in Higher Education: A European Perspective’ 36. Susan Wright (2004), ‘Markets, Corporations, Consumers? New Landscapes of Higher Education’ 37. Qiang Zha (2009), ‘Diversification or Homogenization: How Governments and Markets have Combined to (Re) Shape Chinese Higher Education in its Recent Massification Process’

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Book SynopsisThe International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics provides a comprehensive resource for instructors and researchers in economics, both new and experienced. This wide-ranging collection is designed to enhance student learning by helping economic educators learn more about course content, pedagogic techniques, and the scholarship of the teaching enterprise. The internationally renowned contributors present an exhaustive compilation of accessible insights into major research in economic education across a wide range of topic areas including: Pedagogic practice - teaching techniques, technology use, assessment, contextual techniques, and K-12 practices. Research findings - principles courses, measurement, factors influencing student performance, evaluation, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Institutional/administrative issues - faculty development, the undergraduate and graduate student, and international perspectives. Teaching enhancement initiatives - foundations, organizations, and workshops. Grounded in research, and covering past and present knowledge as well as future challenges, this detailed compendium of economics education will prove an invaluable reference tool for all involved in the teaching of economics: graduate students, new teachers, lecturers, faculty, researchers, chairs, deans and directors.Trade Review‘The International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics is a power packed resource for anyone interested in investing time into the effective improvement of their personal teaching methods, and for those who desire to teach students how to think like an economist. It sets guidelines for the successful integration of economics into a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional settings in college and graduate courses with some attention paid to primary and secondary classrooms. . . The International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics is highly recommended for all economics instructors and individuals supporting economic education in courses in and outside of the major. This Handbook provides a multitude of rich resources that make it easy for new and veteran instructors to improve their instruction in ways promising to excite an increasing number of students about learning economics. This Handbook should be on every instructor’s desk and referenced regularly.’ -- Tawni Hunt Ferrarini,,i> The American Economist‘In delightfully readable short chapters by leaders in the sub-fields who are also committed teachers, this encyclopedia of how and what in teaching economics covers everything. There is nothing else like it, and it should be required reading for anyone starting a teaching career - and for anyone who has been teaching for fewer than 50 years!’ -- Daniel S. Hamermesh, University of Texas, Austin, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Foreword William Walstad PART I: A HISTORY OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION 1. Phillip Saunders PART II: TEACHING Section A – Techniques 2. Case Use in Economics Instruction Patrick Conway 3. Teaching with Context-Rich Problems Joann Bangs 4. Using Cooperative Learning Exercises in Economics KimMarie McGoldrick 5. Improving Classroom Discussion in Economics Courses W. Lee Hansen and Michael K. Salemi 6. Let Experience be the Guide: Experiential Education in Economics KimMarie McGoldrick and Andrea L. Ziegert 7. Classroom Experiments Tisha Emerson and Denise Hazlett 8. Interactive Lecture Demonstrations: Adapting a Physics Education Pedagogy for Use in the Economics Classroom Mark Maier 9. Using Just-in-Time Teaching to Promote Student Learning in Economics Scott Simkins 10. Making the Large-Enrollment Course Interactive and Engaging Stephen Buckles, Gail M. Hoyt and Jennifer Imazeki 11. Teaching Economics Socratically Kenneth G. Elzinga 12. Writing for Learning in Economics Elizabeth Perry-Sizemore and Steven A. Greenlaw Section B – Technology 13. Incorporating Media and Response Systems in the Economics Classroom Joseph Calhoun and Dirk Mateer 14. Distance Education: Course Development and Strategies for Success Mary Mathewes Kassis 15. Economics Blogs and Economic Education Timothy C. Haab, Aaron Schiff, John C. Whitehead Section C – Assessment 16. Methods of Assessment in the College Economics Course Ken Rebeck and Carlos Asarta 17. An Expected Proficiencies Approach to the Economics Major W. Lee Hansen Section D – Contextual Techniques 18. Ethics and Critical Thinking Jonathan B. Wight 19. Feminist Pedagogy and Economics Jean Shackelford 20. Integrating Race, Gender and Class Robin L. Bartlett 21. Economics and Literature: The Gains from Trade Cecil E. Bohanon and Michelle Albert Vachris 22. The Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Economics Arthur H. Goldsmith and James F. Casey 23. Pluralism in Economics Education Robert F. Garnett, Jr. and Jack Reardon 24. Threshold Concepts in Economics Education Peter Davies Section E – Elementary, Secondary Economic Education 25. Economic Education in American Elementary and Secondary Schools Paul W. Grimes 26. Organizations Focused on Economic Education Sue Lynn Sasser and Helen Meyers PART III: RESEARCH Section A – Principles Courses 27. The Purpose, Structure and Content of the Principles of Economics Course Geoffrey Schneider 28. The Principles of Economics Textbook: Content Coverage and Usage Jane S. Lopus and Lynn Paringer Section B – Measurement Techniques of Student Performance and Literacy: College and High School 29. Measurement Techniques of Student Performance and Literacy: College and High School Carlos Asarta and Ken Rebeck Section C – Factors Influencing Student Performance in Economics 30. Research on the Effectiveness of Non-Traditional Pedagogies Joshua D. Miller and Robert P. Rebelein 31. Factors Influencing Performance in Economics: Graphs and Quantitative Usage Mary Ellen Benedict and John Hoag 32. Student Characteristics, Behavior, and Performance in Economics Classes Ann L. Owen 33. Factors Influencing Student Performance in Economics: Class and Instructor Characteristics Wayne A. Grove and Stephen Wu Section D – What Every Economist Should Know About the Evaluation of Teaching: A Review of Literature 34. What Every Economist Should Know About the Evaluation of Teaching: A Review of the Literature Stephen B. DeLoach Section E – Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 35. Data Resources and Econometric Techniques William Bosshardt and Peter E. Kennedy 36. Lessons from Physics Education Research: Lessons for Economics Education Mark Maier and Scott Simkins 37. Journals and Beyond: Publishing Economics Education Research Peter Davies and William L. Goffe PART IV: CONTENT 38. Less is More: The Perils of Trying to Cover too Much in Microeconomic Principles Robert H. Frank 39. Macroeconomic Principles are Still Relevant and Still Important William A. McEachern 40. Teaching Non-Majors Deborah M. Figart 41. Intermediate Microeconomics Walter Nicholson 42. Intermediate Macroeconomics Christopher L. Foote 43. Teaching Undergraduate Econometrics Jeffrey M. Wooldridge 44. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Antitrust Economics Roger D. Blair and Christine Piette Durrance 45. The Economics of Education: Applying Economic Theory and Empirical Tools to Public Policy Jessica S. Howell 46. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Teaching the Non-Major and Major Simultaneously Lynne Y. Lewis 47. Teaching Experimental Economics: Reinforcing Paradigms and Bringing Research into the Undergraduate Classroom Charles A. Holt 48. Game Theory in a Liberal Arts Education Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. 49. Teaching a Research-Inspired Course on Growth and Development Marla Ripoll 50. Teaching American Economic History Price Fishback and Pamela Nickless 51. The Economic History of European Growth Daniel Barbezat 52. Why and How to Teach the History of Economic Thought: Economics as Historically Produced Knowledge Avi J. Cohen and Ross B. Emmett 53. Health Economics – Methods for a New Field Allen C. Goodman 54. Teaching Undergraduate Industrial Organization Economics Elizabeth J. Jensen 55. Teaching International Finance, Adapting to Globalization Stefan C. Norrbin and Onsurang Norrbin 56. Teaching International Trade by Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice Raymond Robertson 57. Building Human Capital in the Labor Economics Course Barry T. Hirsch 58. The Challenges and Pleasures of Teaching Law and Economics Thomas S. Ulen 59. Teaching Managerial Economics with Problems Instead of Models Luke M. Froeb and James C. Ward 60. Using Real-World Applications to Policy and Everyday Life to Teach Money and Banking Dean Croushore 61. Teaching Political Economy to Undergraduate Students William Waller 62. Some Reflections on Teaching the Economics of Poverty James P. Ziliak 63. Public Economics Edgar O. Olsen 64. Sports Economics as Applied Microeconomics Peter von Allmen, Michael A. Leeds and Brad R. Humphreys 65. Using Location, Agglomeration, and Policy Issues to Teach Urban Economics Daniel P. McMillen 66. Women and Men in the Economy Francine D. Blau and Anne E. Winkler PART V: INSTITUTIONAL / ADMINISTRATIVE Section A – Faculty Development: Mentoring, Evaluation, Documentation and Resources 67. Faculty Development: Mentoring, Evaluation, Documentation and Resources Rae Jean B. Goodman Section B – Undergraduate Education 68. The Economics Major in the United States John J. Siegfried 69. Curricular and Co-curricular Aspects of the Economics Major at Highly Ranked Schools David H. Dean and Robert C. Dolan Section C – The Characteristics of Economics Graduate Students 70. The Characteristics of Economics Graduate Students Wendy A. Stock Section D – International Economic Education 71. Supporting Economics Higher Education in the United Kingdom John Sloman and Inna Pomorina 72. Economics Education in Australia Alan Duhs and Ross Guest 73. Ordonomics and the Current State of Economic Education in Germany Ewald Mittelstaedt and Claudia Wiepcke PART VI: INITIATIVES FOR TEACHING ENHANCEMENT Section A – Private, Corporate and Government Funding for Economic Education 74. Private, Corporate and Government Funding for Economic Education William T. Alpert and Michael A. MacDowell Section B – An Introduction to Economic Organizations in the US and Beyond 75. Near and Far – An Introduction to Economic Education Organizations in the US and Beyond Franklin G. Mixon, Jr Section C – Economics Teaching Workshops: Past, Present, Future 76. Economics Teaching Workshops: Past, Present, and Future Joab N. Corey, James D. Gwartney and Gail M. Hoyt Index

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Book SynopsisThe next decade will be transformative for the higher education sector. Government funding is decreasing. Through their marketing activities universities have created the 'student consumer.' The student consumer is prepared to shop around, compare prices and value, and once purchased expects a return on their investment. Disruptive innovations are challenging traditional forms of learning and in many cases are viewed as better alternatives to traditional learning in the classroom. Competition from private educational providers is increasing. Their cost base is lower, and their customer focus is superior. In short, universities around the world are facing a perfect storm. While experts don't expect the higher education sector to collapse under these challenges, they do believe that for some institutions the future looks bleak. If universities are to avoid closures or mergers, they will need to adopt a market-oriented approach. This timely book urges readers to view students as customers and focuses on how universities need to reinvent themselves in order to stay relevant. Striking a difference between market-oriented and marketing, the authors provide various examples of institutions around the world that are making efforts to reposition themselves. Additionally, this book delves into the issue of undervalued faculty, arguing that education practices are in desperate need of being reimagined due to the abundance of MOOCs and adaptive and experiential learning practices within universities these days. Both university and academic leaders alike, including presidents, provosts, deans, and faculty will find value in the instructional aspects of this book as they relate to their involvement with institutional advancement agendas as well as providing insight into the changing nature of higher education and the evolving definition of what an academic career now entails.Trade ReviewThe Market Oriented University provides a truly insightful look into the agents of change across the university systems. By offering a refreshing interpretation from a market-oriented view, John Davis and Mark Farrell make a compelling case for the reader to reassess the fundamental purpose of universities. This book is a must-read for all stakeholders of the educational system - administrators, faculty, students, parents, tax-payers, and policy-makers alike.' --Jin K. Han, Singapore Management University, Singapore'Most universities around the world are substantial enterprises involved in stiff competition for students, staff and resources. The leaders of universities are not in charge of quiet, cloistered ivory towers separated from the larger world. To the contrary, they are major participants in the economics and culture of their regions, and, often, in a number of international undertakings. Professors Davis and Farrell argue that university leaders should recognize these realities and then provide roadmaps for confronting marketplace realities successfully. This is not another book that says ''universities should be run like businesses.'' The authors are experienced enough to understand that the long term purposes of universities are different from those of a typical for profit corporation. But they recognize that universities can, and should, adopt behaviours that will maximize their abilities to compete successfully to attract students, to recruit and retain competent faculty and support staff, and to obtain financial support from both public and private sources. Being oriented to the ''market'' is simple common sense. The outline of issues and possible responses to those issues should be required reading anyone with leadership responsibilities within a modern university.' --Howard Hunter, Singapore Management University'This volume provides the reader with a clear and careful analysis of how universities may become market-oriented, as opposed to being marketing-oriented. More than writing either a simple history of university behaviors or a 'to do' list - whilst addressing both issues - Davis and Farrell offer a fascinating and persuasive reflection on how universities and their markets have been evolving into the 21st century world of increasingly vigorous competition, rapidly changing technology, and dwindling government financial support. The book draws on the authors' deep understanding and knowledge of the tertiary sector and marketing strategy, making its reading vital for all university managers and academics.' --Christopher Adam, UNSW AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Towards a Market Oriented University 2. Competition and Rankings 3. Delivering Student Satisfaction 4. Disrupting Higher Education 5. From Marketing to Market Orientation 6. Developing and Maintaining a Market-Oriented University 7. Understanding the Market 8. Developing Strategic Directions 9. Differentiating, Positioning and Branding the University Index

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Book SynopsisCreativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class presents ideas for teaching writing at university level which recognize the need in the current world to be continually innovating in response to rapidly changing student populations and conditions, including advances in media and writing technologies. The volume emphasizes the creativity of all forms of writing and the important role of discovery in teaching, learning, and the acquisition of knowledge of all kinds.The volume brings together distinguished scholars in writing pedagogy from different educational and cultural contexts who took part in a Summer Institute on Creativity and Discovery in the Teaching of Writing at City University of Hong Kong in June 2013. Designed for teachers of writing based on lectures and workshops given at the summer institute, this collection offers both theoretical insights and practical suggestions for classroom activities that teachers of writing will be able to go to for materials and guidance.

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Book SynopsisCollege cost per student has been on the rise at a pace that matches ? or exceeds ? healthcare costs. Unlike healthcare, though, teaching quality has declined, and rapidly rising costs and declining quality are not trends easily forgiven by society. The College Cost Disease addresses these problems, providing a behavioral framework for the chronic cost/quality consequences with which higher education is fraught. Providing many compelling insights into the issues plaguing higher education, Robert Martin expounds upon H.R. Bowen?s revenue theory of cost by detailing experience good theory, the principal/agent problem, and non-profit status. Reputation competition dominates higher education. Students and their parents, and public opinion in general, associate higher tuition with higher quality and greater accolades; price is used as a proxy for quality only when consumers are uncertain about quality prior to purchase. Higher education services are the most complex types of ?experience goods?; a service whose quality can only be determined after a purchase has been made. Applying formal economic theory to higher education, Robert Martin examines how and why attempts to control costs are controversial and the damaging effects these controversies have on institutions? reputations. Arguing that the college access problem cannot be solved until colleges and universities find a way to control their costs, this book brings to the fore the leading ideas that will bring about much-needed budgetary reform in higher education.Governing boards, administrators and faculty members should find much to think on and learn from here; parents, students, alumni and taxpayers will find the research and conclusions alarming, though eye-opening.Trade Review‘The College Cost Disease is indeed a useful reading, not only for the students of economics of education, but also for others interested in quality and also that the costs of higher education would immensely benefit from.’ -- Jandhyala B.G. Tilak, Journal of Educational Planning and AdministrationTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Cost, Quality, and Anomalies in Higher Education 2. Statistical Measures: Teaching Productivity, Cost, Financial Burden, and Quality 3. Reputations and the Chivas Regal Effect 4. The Principal/Agent Problem in Higher Education 5. Commercialization: The Devil Made Me Do It! 6. The Gresham Effect, Lemons, and Teaching 7. Inside the Black Box Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJan M. SmitsTrade ReviewJan Smits has long been one of the most interesting and original authors on European private law theory. Now he offers his views on legal scholarship, and they are as original as they are thought-provoking. His plea for a legal scholarship that maintains its identity vis-a-vis neighboring disciplines without collapsing into doctrinairism is bound to yield lively discussions - and hopefully will help re-establish a proper place for legal scholarship, in Europe and beyond. --Ralf Michaels, Duke University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: A Discipline in Crisis? 1. Legal Science: A Typology 2. The Homo Juridicus: Towards a Redefinition of Normative Legal Science 3. Methodology of Normative Legal Science 4. Organization of the Legal-academic Discourse Synopsis References Index

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Book SynopsisAt last! Here is a research rich and conceptually coherent account of two interlinked policy domains that have scarcely featured in either the Europeanisation or higher education literature. Such a book is needed. During the last decade, a European Higher Education Area has emerged and EU higher education and research are now strategic issues for EU growth and innovation policies. The book offers a convincing demonstration of why policy evolves in different ways, even in related policy areas. The eight case studies, written by established scholars and rising academic stars, point up the clash of institutionally embedded tensions in EU policy-making. These tensions are sector-specific. But, thanks to the comparative nature of the study, we can also appreciate a historical dimension to tensions of governance. This explains why in some cases European integration is accepted, in others treated with suspicion. This is a breakthrough book and as such is warmly recommended for both European studies and higher education studies teachers, researchers and students.'- Anne Corbett author of Universities and the Europe of Knowledge: Ideas, Institutions and Policy Entrepreneurship in European Union Higher Education Policy and former Visiting Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKBuilding the Knowledge Economy in Europe investigates the dynamics of emerging knowledge policy domains on the European political agenda, and the dynamics of this in relation to knowledge policies. This volume brings together leading experts who address the two central pillars of the 'Europe of Knowledge', research and higher education, to reveal the vertical, horizontal and sequential tensions in European knowledge governanceThis book is the first comparative volume on European research and higher education policies. The chapters cover topics such as the idea of the European Research Area, sustainability of the Bologna Process, institution building for a Europe of Knowledge, domestic impact of EU level initiatives, and the role of the crisis in the European Higher Education Area. It accounts for the creation of key institutions administering EU funding and addresses the core issues of European integration in the knowledge domains.This thought provoking book will engage academic readers interested in European integration analyzed from general political science, administrative science, organization theory perspectives as well as in higher education and science studies. National policy-makers, European policy-makers and practitioners will also find much policy-relevant content, particularly because the European Research Area is formally scheduled to be completed by 2014.Contributors include: M.-H. Chou, M. Elken, Å. Gornitzka, H.F. Hansen, C. Hoareau, J. Metz, J. Real-Dato, M. VukasovicTrade Review‘At last! Here is a research rich and conceptually coherent account of two interlinked policy domains that have scarcely featured in either the Europeanisation or higher education literature. Such a book is needed. During the last decade, a European Higher Education Area has emerged and EU higher education and research are now strategic issues for EU growth and innovation policies. The book offers a convincing demonstration of why policy evolves in different ways, even in related policy areas. The eight case studies, written by established scholars and rising academic stars, point up the clash of institutionally embedded tensions in EU policy-making. These tensions are sector-specific. But, thanks to the comparative nature of the study, we can also appreciate a historical dimension to tensions of governance. This explains why in some cases European integration is accepted, in others treated with suspicion. This is a breakthrough book and as such is warmly recommended for both European studies and higher education studies teachers, researchers and students.’ -- Anne Corbett author of Universities and the Europe of Knowledge: Ideas, Institutions and Policy Entrepreneurship in European Union Higher Education Policy and former Visiting Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK‘This rich text is highly recommended as it adds significantly to our understanding of European knowledge policy and the institutions by which that policy is governed.’ -- Journal of Contemporary European ResearchTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Building a European Knowledge Area: An Introduction to the Dynamics of Policy Domains on the Rise Meng-Hsuan Chou and Åse Gornitzka 2. The Evolution of the European Research Area as an Idea in European Integration Meng-Hsuan Chou 3. Translating the ‘European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers’ in National Arenas: Norway vs. Spain Meng-Hsuan Chou and José Real-Dato 4. Dynamics of Institution Building in the Europe of Knowledge: The Birth of the European Research Council Åse Gornitzka and Julia Metz 5. European Institution Building under Inhospitable Conditions – the Unlikely Establishment of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology Åse Gornitzka and Julia Metz 6. Dynamics of Voluntary Coordination: Actors and Networks in the Bologna Process Mari Elken and Martina Vukasovic 7. How Strong are the EU’s Soft Modes of Governance? The Use of the Open Method of Coordination in National Policymaking in the Knowledge Policy Domain Åse Gornitzka 8. ‘Quality Agencies’: The Development of Regulating and Mediating Organizations in Scandinavian Higher Education Hanne Foss Hansen 9. Economic Shocks, Federalism and Redistribution: Exploring the Future of Europe through a Comparison of the Evolution of Student Financial Aid in the United States and the European Union Cecile Hoareau Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful Handbook offers a lens through which to view entrepreneurship strategy for higher education institutions, as it becomes increasingly necessary for universities to consider changing their strategies, culture and practices to become more entrepreneurial.Is the idea of an entrepreneurial university a myth or a reality? Is the university model capable of adapting to new evolving trends and a more complex professional world? And, what is the impact of entrepreneurship in education? Through extensive research and case studies from some of the leading entrepreneurial thinkers around the world, Alain Fayolle and Dana Redford answer these questions and raise further issues for debate. Particular focus is given to developing university strategy, public policy and start-up support as a means to foster graduate entrepreneurship. Each contribution explores different perspectives related to the entrepreneurial university concept and its role in stimulating economic growth through cooperative relationships with business and government.As a comprehensive study of the entrepreneurial university, this Handbook will prove invaluable to business and entrepreneurship students and academics, as well as university administrators, researchers and others interested in the evolution of the university.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Alain Fayolle and Dana Redford PART I: DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY 1. Stakeholder Management and the Entrepreneurial University Dana Redford and Alain Fayolle 2. The University of the Future: An Entrepreneurial Stakeholder Learning Organization? Allan A Gibb and Gay Haskins 3. Managing the Improvement of Entrepreneurship Education Programs: A Comparison of Universities in the Life Sciences in Europe, USA and Canada Vincent Blok, Rob Lubberink, Thomas Lans and Onno Omta 4. Entrepreneurship in Finland, Sweden and Norway: Transferability of Entrepreneurship Education Programmes Bjørn Willy Åmo 5. Institutional Change of the German Higher Education System: From Professional Dominance to Managed Education Markus Reihlen and Ferdinand Wenzlaff 6. University Entrepreneurship Education in Tanzania: Introducing Entrepreneurship Education in a Context of Transition Ernest Samwel Mwasalwiba, Peter Groenewegen and Ingrid Wakkee 7. Evolving Entrepreneurial Universities: Experiences and Challenges in the Middle Eastern Context Maribel Guerrero, David Urbano and Aidin Salamzadeh 8. A Regional Perspective on the Entrepreneurial University: Practices and Policies Niall G. MacKenzie and Qiantao Zhang PART II: PEDAGOGIC PRACTICES IN ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION 9. ‘The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree’: Entrepreneurial University as Nurturer of Entrepreneurial Values Magdalena Markowska 10. Integrated Support for University Entrepreneurship from Entrepreneurial Intent Towards Behavior: The Case of the German ‘Exist’ Policy Programme Christine Volkmann and Marc Grünhagen 11. Boosting Entrepreneurship Education within the Knowledge Network of the Dutch Agri-Food Sciences: The New ‘Wageningen’ Approach Willem Hulsink, Hans Dons, Thomas Lans and Vincent Blok 12. Not Just the What and How, but Also the Who: The Impact of Entrepreneurship Educators Susanne Steiner 13. Global Start-Up Internships as a Source of Experiential Learning Truls Erikson, Mari Saua Svalastog and Daniel Leunbach PART III: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITIES AND ENTERPRISES: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, VENTURE CAPITALS AND SPIN-OFFS 14. The Potential of and Framework for Promoting a Business Angel University and Intellectual Property Exploitation: A Case Study from Wales Simon McCarthy, Gary Packham and David Pickernell 15. Commercializing Science by Means of University Spin-Offs: An Ethical Review Elco van Burg 16. The Meandering Path: The University’s Contribution Toward the Entrepreneurial Journey Louise-Jayne Edwards and Elizabeth J. Muir 17. Entrepreneurial Learning and the IBM Universities Business Challenge: An Experiential Learning Perspective Wim van Vuuren, Colm Fearon, Gemma van Vuuren-Cassar and Judith Crayford 18. Where do Academic Entrepreneurs Locate their Firms? How to Access the Development of Entrepreneurship Education at University Level Christos Kolympiris, Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes and Ken Schneeberger 19. How to Access the Development of Entrepreneurship Education at University Level: The Case of Denmark Kåre Moberg, Lene Vestergaard, Casper Jørgensen, Elisabeth Markussen and Sose Hakverdyan

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Book SynopsisInteractions between firms and universities are key building blocks of innovation systems. With a focus on developing countries, this book presents novel comparative research spanning three continents. The result is a more universal and dynamic view of the shaping and reshaping of interactions between firms and universities within different countries in various stages of development.Through expert contributions, a combination of empirical investigations and theoretical discussion is presented, existing studies on innovation systems are quantified and further avenues of research suggested. Readers will establish a more universal understanding of the vibrant relationship between firms and universities, and how this affects innovation for the future.Scholars of innovation, evolutionary economics, science and technology studies, and development studies will find the original research to be of great value. This book will also appeal to public research organizations and policy makers.Contributors: J.O. Adeoti, E. Albuquerque, V. Arza, I. Bortagaray, G. Britto, C. De Fuentes, G. Dutrénit, J.-H. Eun, A.C. Fernandes, G. Kruss, K. Lee, D. Nabudere, D. O'Brien, M. Pinho, L. Ribeiro, D. Schiller, W. Suzigan, C. Vazquez, Y.Wang, G. WuTrade ReviewWhat is similar and what is different about the relationships between how universities and public laboratories interact with firms in developing, as contrasted with advanced, industrial economies? How do these differences reflect and support the differences witnessed in on-going innovations? This book is the first large-scale report on these matters, and their implications for policy in developing countries. --- From the foreword by Richard R. Nelson, Columbia University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Richard R. Nelson Introduction Glenda Kruss, Keun Lee, Wilson Suzigan and Eduardo Albuquerque PART I: INTERACTIONS ACROSS REGIONS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT 1. Bracing for Change: Making Universities and Firms Partners for Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa Glenda Kruss, John O. Adeoti, and Dani Nabudere 2. Are University–Industry Links Meaningful for Catch-Up? A Comparative Analysis of Five Asian Countries Daniel Schiller and Keun Lee 3. Features of Interactions between Public Research Organizations and Industry in Latin America: The Perspective of Researchers and Firms Gabriela Dutrénit and Valeria Arza 4. China’s University–Industry Links in Transition Jong-Hak Eun, Yi Wang and Guisheng Wu PART II: DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS: MATCHES AND MISMATCHES OVER TIME 5. Relevance of University–Industry Links for Firms from Developing Countries: Exploring Different Surveys Marcelo Pinho and Ana Cristina Fernandes 6. Channels and Benefits of Interactions between Public Research Organizations and Industry: Comparing Country Cases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America Valeria Arza, Claudia De Fuentes, Gabriela Dutrénit and Claudia Vazquez 7. Matrices of University–Firm Interactions in Latin America Eduardo Albuquerque, Wilson Suzigan, Valeria Arza and Gabriela Dutrénit PART III: TOWARD A FRAMEWORK OF GLOBAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND FIRMS 8. Global Interactions between Firms and Universities: A Tentative Typology and an Empirical Investigation Leonardo Ribeiro, Gustavo Britto, Glenda Kruss, and Eduardo Albuquerque Postscript Researching University–Industry Links: Where Do We Go from Here? David O’Brien and Isabel Bortagaray References Index

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Book Synopsis'Between the ever-open possibilities of the global space, and the nation-state with its still seemingly irreducible hold on territory and imagination, lies the region. In higher education there are many kinds of region. This is by far the best book on regional developments, and one of the first two or three books we must now turn to in order to understand global higher education-it provides an invaluable geo-spatial lens that complements analyses based on political economy and culture.'- Simon Marginson, ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education and University College London, UKThis original book provides a unique analysis of the different regional and inter-regional projects, their processes and the politics of Europeanisation, globalisation and education. Collectively, the contributors engage with a range of theories on regionalising to explore new ways of thinking about regionalisms and inter-regionalisms with a focus on the higher education sector. It makes the compelling case that globally, higher education is being transformed by regionalizing and inter-regionalizing projects aimed at resolving ongoing economic, political and cultural challenges within and beyond national territorial states.The chapters range over a wide geography of regional projects and their unique politics - from Europe to Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Gulf, and the Barent region. Collectively they reveal the diverse, uneven, and variegated nature of global regionalisms in higher education. Comprehensive and theoretically informed, this unique book will appeal to academics and postgraduate students, in addition to policymakers and administrators involved in higher education.Contributors include: T. Aljafari, N. Azman, A.A. Bakar, R.Y. Chao Jr., J.-É. Charlier, S. Croché, R. Dale, Q.A. Dang, L.A. Gandin, T.D. Jules, S. Melo, P. Motter, T. Muhr, M.L. Neves de Azevedo, K. Olds, O.M. Panait, D. Perrotta, S.L. Robertson, M. Sirat, M. Sundet, A. WelchTrade Review'This is an outstanding book that brings sharp analytical focus to the regionalisation of higher education rather than subsuming it under the broader rubric of transnational education. It brings a critical perspective to regional higher education that understand it as political and cultural projects - albeit contested - that produce new cartographies of higher education governance. It asks: who drives these projects, what interest do they serve, who are the governed and the governors in these systems of governance. This is essential reading for any interested in the future of higher education.' --Kanishka Jayasuriya, Murdoch University, Australia'Regional supra-national organizations such as the European Union, NAFTA and ASEAN are not only integrated through formal agreements between member states. As this collection of studies of higher education convincingly shows, the knowledge-based services economy fueling much global economic growth is becoming dependent on higher-education collaborative projects at the regional scale. These projects transcends the bounds of the state-to-state compacts as such and point to the increasingly regional future of this entire sector.' --John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles'In an age of complex multilateralism, regionalist strategies and regionalisation, processes need to feature much more prominently in academic research literatures. Global Regionalisms and Higher Education is exemplary in its understanding of this key point. It provides a comprehensive, lucid, illuminating and engaging study of the diverse ways in which education systems, policies and politics are embroiled in processes of region-building, and their significance for theory and practice. Significantly enriching our understanding of what it means to 'regionalise' education, Robertson et al have delivered what deserves to be recognised as a turning point in the sociology of globalisation, regional integration, social policy and education.' --Nicola Yeates, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Global Regionalisms and Higher Education Susan L. Robertson, Roger Dale, Kris Olds and Que Anh Dang 1. Higher Education, The EU, and the Cultural Political Economy of Regionalism Susan L. Robertson, Mário Luiz Neves de Azevedo and Roger Dale 2. Different Regionalisms, One European Higher Education Regionalization: The Case of the Bologna Process Susana Melo 3. Erasmus Mundus and the EU: Intrinsic Sectoral Regionalism in Higher Education Roger Dale 4. Inter-regional Higher Education Arena: The Transposition of European Instruments in Africa Jean-Émile Charlier, Sarah Croché and Oana Marina Panait 5. Harmonization of Higher Education in Southeast Asia Regionalism: Politics First, and then Education Morshidi Sirat, Norzaini Azman and Aishah Abu Bakar 6. Changing Higher Education Discourse in the Making of the ASEAN Region Roger Y. Chao Jr. 7. Shaping an ASEM (Higher) Education Area: Hybrid Sectoral Regionalism from Within Que Anh Dang 8. Ir-Regular Regionalism? China’s Borderlands and ASEAN Higher Education: Trapped in the Prism Anthony Welch 9. Good Friends and Faceless Partners: Educational Cooperation for Community Building in the Barents Region Marit Sundet 10. Transregionalism and the Caribbean Higher Educational Space Tavis D. Jules 11. MERCOSUR, Regulatory Regionalism and Contesting Projects of Higher Education Governance Daniela Perrotta 12. South-South Development Cooperation and the Socio-Spatial Reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean Regionalisms: University Education in the Brazil-Venezuela ‘Special Border Regime’ Thomas Muhr 13. Higher Education and New Regionalism in Latin America: The UNILA Project Paulino Motter and Luis Armando Gandin 14. Regionalization, Higher Education and the Gulf Cooperation Council Tahani Aljafari Index

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Book Synopsis'Between the ever-open possibilities of the global space, and the nation-state with its still seemingly irreducible hold on territory and imagination, lies the region. In higher education there are many kinds of region. This is by far the best book on regional developments, and one of the first two or three books we must now turn to in order to understand global higher education-it provides an invaluable geo-spatial lens that complements analyses based on political economy and culture.'- Simon Marginson, ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education and University College London, UKThis original book provides a unique analysis of the different regional and inter-regional projects, their processes and the politics of Europeanisation, globalisation and education. Collectively, the contributors engage with a range of theories on regionalising to explore new ways of thinking about regionalisms and inter-regionalisms with a focus on the higher education sector. It makes the compelling case that globally, higher education is being transformed by regionalizing and inter-regionalizing projects aimed at resolving ongoing economic, political and cultural challenges within and beyond national territorial states.The chapters range over a wide geography of regional projects and their unique politics - from Europe to Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Gulf, and the Barent region. Collectively they reveal the diverse, uneven, and variegated nature of global regionalisms in higher education. Comprehensive and theoretically informed, this unique book will appeal to academics and postgraduate students, in addition to policymakers and administrators involved in higher education.Contributors include: T. Aljafari, N. Azman, A.A. Bakar, R.Y. Chao Jr., J.-É. Charlier, S. Croché, R. Dale, Q.A. Dang, L.A. Gandin, T.D. Jules, S. Melo, P. Motter, T. Muhr, M.L. Neves de Azevedo, K. Olds, O.M. Panait, D. Perrotta, S.L. Robertson, M. Sirat, M. Sundet, A. WelchTrade Review'This is an outstanding book that brings sharp analytical focus to the regionalisation of higher education rather than subsuming it under the broader rubric of transnational education. It brings a critical perspective to regional higher education that understand it as political and cultural projects - albeit contested - that produce new cartographies of higher education governance. It asks: who drives these projects, what interest do they serve, who are the governed and the governors in these systems of governance. This is essential reading for any interested in the future of higher education.' --Kanishka Jayasuriya, Murdoch University, Australia'Regional supra-national organizations such as the European Union, NAFTA and ASEAN are not only integrated through formal agreements between member states. As this collection of studies of higher education convincingly shows, the knowledge-based services economy fueling much global economic growth is becoming dependent on higher-education collaborative projects at the regional scale. These projects transcends the bounds of the state-to-state compacts as such and point to the increasingly regional future of this entire sector.' --John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles'In an age of complex multilateralism, regionalist strategies and regionalisation, processes need to feature much more prominently in academic research literatures. Global Regionalisms and Higher Education is exemplary in its understanding of this key point. It provides a comprehensive, lucid, illuminating and engaging study of the diverse ways in which education systems, policies and politics are embroiled in processes of region-building, and their significance for theory and practice. Significantly enriching our understanding of what it means to 'regionalise' education, Robertson et al have delivered what deserves to be recognised as a turning point in the sociology of globalisation, regional integration, social policy and education.' --Nicola Yeates, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Global Regionalisms and Higher Education Susan L. Robertson, Roger Dale, Kris Olds and Que Anh Dang 1. Higher Education, The EU, and the Cultural Political Economy of Regionalism Susan L. Robertson, Mário Luiz Neves de Azevedo and Roger Dale 2. Different Regionalisms, One European Higher Education Regionalization: The Case of the Bologna Process Susana Melo 3. Erasmus Mundus and the EU: Intrinsic Sectoral Regionalism in Higher Education Roger Dale 4. Inter-regional Higher Education Arena: The Transposition of European Instruments in Africa Jean-Émile Charlier, Sarah Croché and Oana Marina Panait 5. Harmonization of Higher Education in Southeast Asia Regionalism: Politics First, and then Education Morshidi Sirat, Norzaini Azman and Aishah Abu Bakar 6. Changing Higher Education Discourse in the Making of the ASEAN Region Roger Y. Chao Jr. 7. Shaping an ASEM (Higher) Education Area: Hybrid Sectoral Regionalism from Within Que Anh Dang 8. Ir-Regular Regionalism? China’s Borderlands and ASEAN Higher Education: Trapped in the Prism Anthony Welch 9. Good Friends and Faceless Partners: Educational Cooperation for Community Building in the Barents Region Marit Sundet 10. Transregionalism and the Caribbean Higher Educational Space Tavis D. Jules 11. MERCOSUR, Regulatory Regionalism and Contesting Projects of Higher Education Governance Daniela Perrotta 12. South-South Development Cooperation and the Socio-Spatial Reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean Regionalisms: University Education in the Brazil-Venezuela ‘Special Border Regime’ Thomas Muhr 13. Higher Education and New Regionalism in Latin America: The UNILA Project Paulino Motter and Luis Armando Gandin 14. Regionalization, Higher Education and the Gulf Cooperation Council Tahani Aljafari Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a remarkably broad yet detailed description and analysis of the various roles played by universities in the workings of modern economies, with a particular focus on Europe. It provides both a wide survey of research by others on the topics addressed, and an account of the authors' own important work. The complex policy issues are clearly drawn, and the authors informed pragmatic position on them clearly articulated. This is the best book on the subject that I have seen.'- Richard Nelson, Columbia University, US'This book, with its wealth of information and its broad perspective, goes a long way toward educating us in the United States about how research at European universities is conducted and funded and details differences between Europe and the US. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to have a broader perspective on the relationship between universities and the economy.'- Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER, USThe University and the Economy provides an in-depth exploration of the many ways in which universities contribute to economic development and growth. By providing readers with theoretical tools and evidence to explain the means by which university activities impact the economic system, the book offers a robust analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of specific university systems.In offering a solid foundation of conceptual and statistical knowledge, this book supports the current debate on the role of the university in the contemporary economy. It also offers insights to enhance understanding of why some university systems are not contributing to their economies as well as others. The book adopts an economic perspective, which allows the actions of universities, as well as the individuals who study and work within them, to be analyzed in the context of economic models of behavior. From this perspective, it explains the organization, governance and funding of universities' activities and explores how these could be structured to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.Academics, policymakers, managers and professionals working in universities will find a wealth of valuable information in this book. It will also be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of science and technology policy, higher education economics and the economics and management of innovation.Trade Review'Geuna and Rossi's The University and the Economy provides a concise, critical survey of how universities' teaching, research, and technology transfer activities may contribute to economic growth, while cautioning decision-makers not to rely overmuch on popular statistical indicators of that performance.' --(Science and Public Policy)'The book is well written and structured, and it clearly demonstrates the value of an economic approach to the universities' activities... this book is highly recommendable and a good example of the valuable contributions that university research can make. It is relevant for students, academics, managers as well as policy-makers.' --(Regional Studies )'To wrap it up, the book by Aldo Geuna and Federica Rossi provides a thorough overview of the many ways in which universities contribute to economic growth through its key activities, teaching and research and technological transfer. The variety of theory, empirical work and original data reported in the book contributes to systematize a great amount of solid knowledge, which may not be easily accessible or directly usable by a wide public. Moreover, the book contributes to the debate on the restructuring on higher education systems with interesting and targeted policy suggestions for improving fruitful synergies between the university and the economy.' --(Journal of Economics Bibliography)Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The University, A Complex Institution 2. The University and The Economy: A Multi-faceted Relationship 3. Higher Education and Economic Welfare 4. The Economic Role and Impact of University Research 5. Measuring Universities’ Performances: An International Comparison 6. University Funding and Research Assessment: An Analysis of Italian and British Cases 7. The Governance and Spatial Dynamics of University-industry Knowledge Transfer 8. Conclusions: Governance and Funding Models for Universities in Transition Index

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Book SynopsisProfessor Phan has assembled an impressive interdisciplinary set of scholars who present important evidence on academic entrepreneurship, with a strong emphasis on the life sciences. This is a lucid and insightful volume. It represents an important milestone in the study of the translation of discoveries to the marketplace, providing important theoretical and empirical perspectives on what's been learned, what the evidence means to academics, policymakers, and practitioners, and future directions for research. A must-read and a critical reference tool for anyone interested in academic entrepreneurship.'- Donald Siegel, University at Albany, State University of New York, USAcademic entrepreneurship is a multifactorial and multidimensional phenomenon. This book presents research featuring aspects of academic entrepreneurship at the regional, institutional, and organizational levels of analysis. Phillip H. Phan and the authors illustrate that the more interesting aspects of this subject are in the 'tails of the distribution,' where counter-intuitive findings from the data call simple theories into question and inspire a vigorous discussion of alternatives.This edited collection covers a variety of topics including, but not limited to:- corporate governance of innovation- technology commercialization in pharmaceuticals and life sciences- institutional impediments to technology development and economic growth- economic impact of universities- academic labor markets and technology commercialization- translational research and development- technology commercialization in regenerative medicine.The contributors also consider the relative value of general versus specific human capital development and the implications for entrepreneurship and wealth creation.The audience for this book comprises PhD students, new scholars in technology commercialization research, university technology transfer office personnel, economic development specialists and policymakers, and students studying the management of technology.Contributors: D. Balkin, S. Berry, A.J. Bock, B. Bradley, R. Cawley, B. Chatot, J.A. Cunningham, S. Deely, J. DeFelice, I. Dibua, D. Ding, G.R. Djavanshir, A. Dobos, M. Duffy, H. Ener, M. Guerrero, K. Hazelbach, W. Hefley, H. Hoang, H. Hu, D. Johnson, M. Kearns, M. Kiniry, B.K. Lee, K.T. Lim, R. Magath, G. Markman, M. Meoli, M. Michaels, S. Paruchuri, P.H. Phan, A. Rosenbaum, C. Rosenfeld, S.Y.Sohn, J. Somma, R. Strouse, D. Urbano, Z. Venema, S. Vismara, C. Weber, J. YangTrade Review'Professor Phan has assembled an impressive interdisciplinary set of scholars who present important evidence on academic entrepreneurship, with a strong emphasis on the life sciences. This is a lucid and insightful volume. It represents an important milestone in the study of the translation of discoveries to the marketplace, providing important theoretical and empirical perspectives on what’s been learned, what the evidence means to academics, policymakers, and practitioners, and future directions for research. A must-read and a critical reference tool for anyone interested in academic entrepreneurship.' -- Donald Siegel, University at Albany, State University of New York, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Phillip H. Phan 1. Translating Smart Kitchen Technologies from the Lab to the Home Bill Hefley, Dan Ding, Aimee Rosenbaum, Megan Kiniry, Jason Somma, Skyler Berry, Katelyn Hazelbach, Matthew Michaels, James DeFelice, Meghan Duffy, Meredith Kearns, Ryan Magath, Jingzi Yang, Rachel Cawley, Brian Chatot, Samuel Deely, Bryan Bradley, Allison Dobos, Callie Rosenfeld, Rebekah Strouse, Ihinosen Dibua, Haoran Hu, Zachary Venema and Carolyn Weber PART 1 DRIVERS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY 2. Poor Opportunities in the Academic Labor Market as a Cause of Spin-Offs Silvio Vismara and Michele Meoli PART II ORGANIZING FOR COMMERCIALIZATION IN THE BIOPHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY 3. When do Biotechnology Ventures Pursue International R&D Alliances? Hakan Ener and Ha Hoang 4. A Technology Credit Scoring Model for the Biotechnology Industry? So Young Sohn, Kyong Taek Lim and Bo Kyeong Lee 5. The Dynamics of R&D Inertia in the Pharmaceutical Chemicals Industry Srikanth Paruchuri 6. How Corporate Governance Affects Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry Phillip H. Phan, Gideon Markman and David Balkin PART III INSTITUTIONAL CAUSES AND POLICY CONSEQUENCES OF TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP 7. The Institutional Inertias that Constrain Technology-Driven Economic Development G. Reza Djavanshir 8. The Economic Impact of Public Universities in the United Kingdom Maribel Guerrero, David Urbano and James A. Cunningham 9. A Comparative Study of Ecosystem Development in Regenerative Medicine Adam J. Bock and David Johnson Conclusion: Directions for Future Research Phillip H. Phan Index

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Book SynopsisThe role, scale and expectations of higher education institutions have changed dramatically in recent times as knowledge-intensity has become a key determinant of economic competitiveness. Higher education institutions face increasing pressure to demonstrate their fitness to meet the needs of society and individuals. Questions about the quality, performance and productivity of higher education are central to these concerns, of relevance to society, governments and students. This Handbook brings together a group of international scholars to address these issues and propose how to move beyond them.This Handbook is the first comprehensive reference, laying out current research in the field, and bringing it up-to-date with cutting-edge theoretical and empirical contributions from leading international experts. Blending new research with richly contextualised national and regional examples, the authors give authoritative insights from around the globe on how best to understand, assess and improve quality, performance and accountability in higher education.This Handbook will become an invaluable tool for practitioners in higher education and education policy-making as well as researchers and students of social science and public policy.Contributors include: K.S. Adeyemo, K. Aleksandriyskaya, A. Amaral, S. Archer, I. Austin, E. Bell, P. Benneworth, C. Blanco, V. Borden, R. Bringle, R. Brown, H. Coates, G. Croucher, D. Dill, M. Dobbins, D. Edwards, A. Fryar, S. Fukahori, A. Gibson, F. Guo, M. Hanlon, L. Harvey, E. Hazelkorn, M. Hicks, N. Hillman, A.Y.-c.Hou, F. Huang, J. Huisman, Y. Ibrahim, R. Ismail, N. Jankowski, E. Jerez, G. Jones, B. Jongbloed, J. Jungblut, P. Kelly, R. King, K. Kinser, M. Klemencic, G. Kuh, J. Lane, L. Lange, M.C. Lennon, S.E. Lid, N.C. Liu, Y. Luo, M. Mahat, J. Marino, M. Martin, W.F Massy, A.C. McCormick, K. Moore, S. Moyo, P. Noonan, D. Orr, R. Shavelson, J. Shi, O.-J. Skodvin, B. Stensaker, F. Strydom, P. Teixeira, R. Tijssen, O. Troitschanskaia, A. Usher, F. van Vught, N.V. Varghese, H. Vossensteyn, M. Vukasovic, R. Wagenaar, C.D. Wan, E. Weber, H.P. Weingarten, W. Wen, D. Westerheijden, R. Williams, T. Yang, N. Zeeman, L. ZhangTrade Review‘This book will prove a valuable resource and reference well into the future.’ -- Cindy Cogswell, Higher Education Research & Development‘The advantages of this book are clear: it has informative content and comprehensive perspective.’ -- Fengliang Li, Higher EducationTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Quality, Performance, and Accountability: Emergent Challenges in the Global Era Ellen Hazelkorn, Hamish Coates and Alexander C. McCormick PART II OVERARCHING ISSUES AND FRAMING PERSPECTIVES 2. Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Quality in Higher Education Lee Harvey 3. Challenges for Quality Assurance in Higher Education: The Regulatory Turn Roger King 4. Can Public Policy Promote Academic Quality? An Assessment of Policy Instruments for Instruction and Research David D. Dill 5. Goals, Guesses and Gains: Learning Outcomes Policies in Regulatory Activities Mary Catharine Lennon 6. Perspectives and Advances on Productivity Measurement in Higher Education William F. Massy and Sandra Archer 7. Cross-Border Educational Accountability: Navigating Accountability Expectations when Educational Provision Crosses Borders Jason E. Lane, Kevin Kinser and Li Zhang 8. Private and For-Profit Higher Education in Europe: Current Patterns and Regulatory Challenges Pedro Nuno Teixeira and Alberto Amaral 9. When Intuition Misfires: A Meta-Analysis of Research on Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education Elizabeth Bell, Alisa Hicklin Fryar and Nicholas Hillman 10. Accountability In Higher Education: Different Forms, Functions and Forums Jeroen Huisman PART III INDICATORS AND RANKINGS 11. Using Indicators in Higher Education Policy: Between Accountability, Monitoring and Management Michaela Martin 12. Indicators and Global Trends in Higher Education Development N.V. Varghese 13. Understanding and Improving Higher Education Productivity Kenneth Moore, Hamish Coates and Gwilym Croucher 14. Comparing and Benchmarking Higher Education Systems Ross Williams 15. Emerging Perspectives on Measuring and Classifying Institutional Performance Victor Borden, Hamish Coates and Robert Bringle 16. Rankings and Their Impact on Chinese Higher Education Tianli Yang and Nian Cai Liu 17. Between Rhetoric and Reality: University Reporting on Academic Research Commercialization, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Robert J.W. Tijssen 18. The Impact and Influence of Rankings on the Quality, Performance and Accountability Agenda Ellen Hazelkorn and Andrew Gibson PART IV ASSESSING LEARNING AND THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE 19. Performance indicators of learning in Higher Education Institutions: An Overview of the Field Richard J. Shavelson, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia and Julián P. Mariño 20. Global Assessments of Disciplinary Learning Outcomes: What We Learned from AHELO Mary Catharine Lennon, Satoko Fukahori and Daniel Edwards 21. Quality Efforts at the Discipline Level: Bologna’s Tuning Process Robert Wagenaar 22. Revisiting Student Performance as a Cornerstone of Higher Education: How is Student Performance Reflected in Performance-Based Funding? Dominic Orr and Alex Usher 23. Assuring High-Quality Learning for All Students: Lessons from the Field George D. Kuh and Natasha A. Jankowski 24. What kind of quality assurance leads to improved performance and accountability? The views of European students Jens Jungblut, Bjørn Stensaker and Martina Vukasovic 25. The Student Voice in Quality Assessment and Improvement Manja Klemenčič PART V NATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS 26. Fit for Purpose: Intellectual, Political and Operational Struggles in South African Quality Assurance Lis Lange and Francois Strydom 27. Towards Building Useful Institutional Reporting Systems for Research and Innovation in African Higher Education: A Lateral View Sibusiso Moyo 28. Governing Quality in a Transforming Higher Education System: The Case of China Jinghuan Shi, Yan Luo, Wen Wen and Fei Guo 29. Quality Assurance of Higher Education in East Asia: Changes, Characteristics and Challenges Futao Huang 30. Quality Assurance and Its Use in Taiwan Higher Education: Implications for Fully Accredited and Non-Fully Accredited Institutions Angela Yung-chi Hou 31. Funding Reform in Malaysian Public Universities: Examining the Current Situation Russayani Ismail, Chang Da Wan and Yusnidah Ibrahim 32. Higher Education Policy in the Philippines: Quality and Quality Assurance for Socioeconomic Development? Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo and Everard Weber 33. National Performance Assessment and Accountability in Higher Education: Lessons from Australia Marian Mahat and Martin Hanlon 34. Lessons from Analysing Failure in Higher Education Policy in Australia Gwilym Croucher 35. Changing Patterns of Accountability in the UK: from QA to TEF Roger Brown 36. Exploring the Institutionalization of Quality Assurance in Post-Communist Higher Education Michael Dobbins and Katja Aleksandriyskaya 37. Governance Tools to Increase Quality and Diversity in Higher Education: Emerging Trends in Norway Ole-Jacob Skodvin and Stein Erik Lid 38. Measurement of Postsecondary Performance in Canada: Moving Beyond Inputs and Funding to Outputs and Outcomes Harvey P. Weingarten and Martin Hicks 39. Transforming Quality Assurance in Chilean Higher Education: Development, Reviews and Reform. Emeline Jerez and Christian Blanco PART VI FUTURE DIRECTIONS 40. Changing System-Level Conceptualisations of Performance in Higher Education Peter Noonan 41. Emerging Trends in Higher Education Governance: Reflecting on Performance, Accountability and Transparency Ian Austin and Glen A. Jones 42. Civic and Regional Engagement and Accountability Paul Benneworth and Nadine Zeeman 43. Transparency Tools for Higher Education Ben Jongbloed, Hans Vossensteyn, Frans van Vught and Don F. Westerheijden Index

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Book Synopsis'Clearly, HEIs are discovering their innovative and entrepreneurial potential to reply to the society's distinct need for them to have a more entrepreneurial role, namely in innovation. This book succeeds in discussing the theme from an interdisciplinary perspective. For that reason, this book will be of help to practitioners in university management roles and policy-makers as well as anyone researching this theme and teaching entrepreneurship in HEIs.'- Nuno Fernandes Crespo, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal'This book offers educators, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and researchers significant and practical implications. After reading the book, we can conclude that the different experiences described by authors on the academic tools and educational methods can be generalized in many other universities around the world, in both developed and developing countries.'- Waleed Omri, EDC Paris Business School, France 'Edited by four leading researchers, Entrepreneurial Universities provides innovative insights into how universities are contributing to the emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem that is both redefining universities themselves and shaping society. It is an important book for all those interested in how universities are reinventing themselves in a time of profound societal transformation.'- Tim Marjoribanks, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia'Universities are called to be more and more entrepreneurial - that is innovative, proactive and risk-taking - to promote regional development and economic growth. As a Professor working in two of the most entrepreneurial Italian universities, I benefited from reading this book. I consequently recommend it to all my colleagues to guide their strategic choices and their daily activities.'- Salvatore Sciascia, IULM University and Cattaneo University, ItalyWith an increasing focus on the knowledge and service economies, it is important to understand the role that entrepreneurial universities play through collaboration in policy and, in turn, the impact they have on policy. The authors evaluate how universities engage with communities while also balancing stakeholder considerations, and explore how universities should be managed in the future to integrate into global society effectively.The book reflects the internationalisation of entrepreneurial universities with examples from Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, Malaysia, India, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the UK. Each chapter identifies the differing cultural influences and how changes in policy approaches mean universities are constantly evolving. The authors also look into how culture influences entrepreneurship education, and in turn how culture affects the initiatives of policy-makers. With a focus on enhancing entrepreneurial opportunities, universities are shown to respond by creating effective initiatives that benefit the wider community through successful collaboration with institutions. The book identifies the close working relationship between new government policies and developing entrepreneurial universities.Researchers, policy analysts and students of entrepreneurship education, education management and policy will find this book a useful supplementary read for understanding the future role of universities.Trade Review'The entrepreneurial university is an increasing phenomenon in a world where universities have to be increasingly adaptable and market responsive whilst maintaining their societal mission and balancing the needs of diverse stakeholders. A text that addresses the past, current and anticipated situation and helps us plan for a dynamic future is most welcome.' --Chris Chapleo, Bournemouth University, UK'An Entrepreneurial University is NOT an oxymoron! After reading this book, with its examples and stories of forward-thinking universities around the world, you will be a believer that there are universities taking dramatic steps into the future and exceeding expectations. This book is a must-read for university administrators and faculty who believe the future is now!' --Dianne H.B. Welsh, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, US'Entrepreneurial universities are not only a hot topic in research but also in practice. This book gives a comprehensive view from an international perspective - timely and interesting!' --Alexander Brem, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The role of entrepreneurial universities in society João J. Ferreira, Alain Fayolle, Vanessa Ratten and Mário Raposo 2. The role of University-Business Collaboration in Entrepreneurship Education Programs Ana D. Daniel, Andreia Vitória and Mariana Pita 3. Entrepreneurial university practices in Brazil under the lens of qualitative and quantitative research Carla Marques, Vitor Braga, João J. Ferreira and Moises Rodrigues 4. A Systemic Approach for Universities in the Knowledge-Based Society: A qualitative study Ademar Schmitz, Getrudes A. Dandolini, João A. de Souza, Maribel Guerrero and David Urbano 5. Entrepreneurialism in a London University: A Case Illustration Nnamdi O. Madichie, Ayantunji Gbadamosi and Sonny Nwankwo 6. The level of competence of young researchers and the knowledge-based economy. The challenges of doctoral education in Poland. Urszula Wiśniewska and Jacek Lewicki 7. HEInnovate – Facilitating Change in Higher Education Andrea-Rosalinde Hofer and Gabi Kaffka 8. Entrepreneurial universities as determinants of technology entrepreneurship Guillermo A. Zapata-Huamaní, Sara Fernández-Lopez, Lucía Rey-Ares and David Rodeiro-Pazos 9. Dynamics of student entrepreneurial teams: understanding individual coping strategies to build efficient teams Sandrine Le Pontois and Stéphane Foliard 10. The role of entrepreneurship education and its characteristics in influencing the entrepreneurial intention: A study based on India and UK Kavita Panwar Seth, Fintan Clear, Tariq Khan and Sharmaine Sakthi Ananthan 11. Building technology entrepreneurship capabilities: An engineering education perspective Kari Kleine, Ferran Giones, Mauricio Camargo and Silke Tegtmeier 12. Entrepreneurial actions towards the success of exponential technologies Sandro Battisti, Eduardo Giugliani, Rafael Prikladnicki and Paolo Traverso 13. Conclusion: Future suggestions for entrepreneurial universities João J. Ferreira, Alain Fayolle, Vanessa Ratten and Mário Raposo Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading research and scholarship on one of the newest and most compelling forces of economic growth, dynamism and innovation - entrepreneurial ecosystems. Particular emphasis is given to the role of innovation, startups, SMEs and technology transfer in shaping the entrepreneurial ecosystem, as well as its impact on firm performance and regional economic performance. From the perspectives of theory, empirical analysis and public policy, this book shows why entrepreneurial ecosystems have become the new economic superstars in the global economy. It provides explicit analysis of policies promoting entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems, and examines the link between entrepreneurial ecosystems and universities. This timely collection of research will be of interest not only to academics and scholars in economics and management, but also to thought leaders in public policy and business.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction David B. Audretsch and Albert N. Link PART I UNIVERSITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP 1. Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2003), ‘U.S. Science Parks: The Diffusion of an Innovation and its Effects on the Academic Missions of Universities’, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21 (9), November, 1323–56 2. Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2005), ‘Opening the Ivory Tower’s Door: An Analysis of the Determinants of the Formation of U.S. University Spin-off Companies’, Research Policy, 34 (7), September, 1106–12 3. Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2006), ‘U.S. University Research Parks’, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 25 (1), April, 43–55 4. T. Taylor Aldridge and David Audretsch (2011), ‘The Bayh-Dole Act and Scientist Entrepreneurship’, Research Policy, 40 (8), October, 1058–67 5. T. Taylor Aldridge, David Audretsch, Sameeksha Desai and Venkata Nadella (2014), ‘Scientist Entrepreneurship Across Scientific Fields’, Journal of Technology Transfer, 39 (6), December, 819–35 PART II UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 6. David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann and Susanne Warning (2005), ‘University Spillovers and New Firm Location’, Research Policy, 34 (7), September, 1113–22 7. Albert N. Link, Donald S. Siegel and Barry Bozeman (2007), ‘An Empirical Analysis of the Propensity of Academics to Engage in Informal University Technology Transfer’, Industrial and Corporate Change, 16 (4), August, 641–55 8. Ahmed Alshumaimri, Taylor Aldridge and David B. Audretsch (2010), ‘The University Technology Transfer Revolution in Saudi Arabia’, Journal of Technology Transfer, 35 (6), December, 585–96 PART III COMPLEMENTARY NATURE OF UNIVERSITY-BASED RESEARCH 9. Albert N. Link and John Rees (1990), ‘Firm Size, University Based Research, and the Returns to R&D’, Small Business Economics, 2 (1), March, 25–31 10. Zoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch and Maryann P. Feldman (1992), ‘Real Effects of Academic Research: Comment’, American Economic Review, 82 (1), March, 363–7 11. David B. Audretsch and Paula E. Stephan (1996), ‘Company-Scientist Locational Links: The Case of Biotechnology’, American Economic Review, 86 (3), June, 641–52 12. Dennis Patrick Leyden and Albert N. Link (2013), ‘Knowledge Spillovers, Collective Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth: The Role of Universities’, Small Business Economics, 41 (4), December, 797–817 PART IV UNIVERSITIES AS RESEARCH PARTNERS 13. Bronwyn H. Hall, Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2003), ‘Universities as Research Partners’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 85 (2), May, 485–91 14. David B. Audretsch, Dennis P. Leyden and Albert N. Link (2012), ‘Universities as Research Partners’, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 21 (5–6), September, 529–45 15. Marco Guerzoni, T. Taylor Aldridge, David B. Audretsch and Sameeksha Desai (2014), ‘A New Industry Creation and Originality: Insight from the Funding Sources of University Patents’, Research Policy, 43 (10), December, 1697–707 Index

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Book Synopsis'The long-standing debate about entrepreneurship education has been given renewed impetus by the advent of experiential learning and student entrepreneurship. It is imperative therefore that entrepreneurship education research can make a contribution to our understanding about the direction and effectiveness of entrepreneurship education. In this volume, Alain Fayolle and an eminent set of contributors lay out frameworks and directions to guide much needed rigorous future research in this important area.'- Mike Wright, Imperial College London, UK'This book offers insightful and actionable ideas for improving entrepreneurship education, its evaluation and its underlying research process. Alain's compendium offers readers a deep dive into the underlying issues in teaching entrepreneurship, and goes beyond North American efforts to showcase European approaches. A worthwhile read for every entrepreneurship educator.'- Jerome A. Katz, Saint Louis University, US Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Edited by Alain Fayolle, this Research Agenda tackles the need for additional and robust intellectual foundations in entrepreneurship education, both at theoretical and methodological levels. The authors show that it is essential to connect entrepreneurship education more firmly with societal demands. Identifying two key issues, the eminent authors first question what the current pedagogies and practices in entrepreneurship education are. Secondly, the authors question what knowledge is known about the relevancy, usefulness and efficiency of the current practices in entrepreneurship education. This book calls for a pragmatic and critical approach in the development of perspectives in entrepreneurship education. This book presents innovative ideas and provocative contributions to the debate with the intention of generating significant new concepts for future researchers, policy makers and practitioners in entrepreneurship. Contributors include: N. Alabduljader, Y. Baggen, A. Bernal, R. Bliss, S. Bureau, D. De Clercq, A. Donnellon, A. Fayolle, M. Fetters, J. Gabrielsson, P. Greene, G. Hagg, B. Honig, B. Johannisson, P. Kyrö, H. Landstrom, T. Lans, F. Linan, M. Loi, B. Martin, J. McNally, L. Ploum, D. Politis, R. Ramani, G. SolomonTrade Review'An excellent contribution to our understanding of entrepreneurship education that truly pushes forward thinking about how to undertake research on this subject. It provides insights from some of the leading thinkers and will undoubtedly be a key work of reference for both educators and researchers.' --Luke Pittaway, Ohio University, US'The really interesting questions and insights in the field of entrepreneurship are coming from scholars focusing on entrepreneurship education. When we explore issues in entrepreneurship education we are delving into fundamental concerns about the knowledge, skills and activities that are essential for spurring entrepreneurial activity. A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship Education offers a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the theoretical and methodological foundations of entrepreneurial learning. The book is populated with a wide-ranging set of chapters by leading authorities in the entrepreneurship area that offer new insights and knowledge about entrepreneurship education that have important implications for entrepreneurship scholarship, policy and practice. The book is a ''must-read''. Yes. The book is that informative and perceptive.' --William B. Gartner, Babson College, US `'This edited book is a must-read for faculty who wish to use rigorous research to inform their practice of teaching entrepreneurship. The global panel of authors tackle a variety of perspectives - philosophical, didactical, epistemological, methodological, and individual - to explore the past, present and future of entrepreneurship education.' --Siri Terjesen, American University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Alain Fayolle PART I RETHINKING ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION RESEARCH 2. Toward Rigour and Relevance in Entrepreneurship Education Research Bruce Martin, Dirk De Clercq and Benson Honig 3. Dealing with the inconsistency of studies in entrepreneurship education effectiveness: A systemic approach to drive future research Michela Loi 4. The future of entrepreneurship education: educating for economic and social impact Patricia G. Greene, Michael L. Fetters, Richard Bliss and Anne Donnellon 5. Does entrepreneurship education develop wisdom? An exploration Jeffrey J. McNally, Benson Honig and Bruce Martin PART II LEARNING FROM EUROPEAN EXEMPLARY CONTRIBUTIONS 6. Exemplary contributions from Europe to entrepreneurship education research and practice Jonas Gabrielsson, Hans Landström, Diamanto Politis and Gustav Hägg 7. Personal views on the future of entrepreneurship education Alain Fayolle 8. Limits to and prospects of entrepreneurship education in the academic context Bengt Johannisson 9. The conceptual contribution of education to research on entrepreneurship education Paula Kyrö PART III FOCUSING ON KEY OUTCOMES AND INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES 10. The reflective novice entrepreneur: From habitual action to intelligent action using experience-based pedagogy as a vehicle for change Gustav Hägg 11. Towards more synergy in entrepreneurial competence research in entrepreneurship education Thomas Lans, Yvette Baggen and Lisa Ploum 12. Learning fictions or facts? Moving from case studies to the impact-based method Sylvain Bureau 13. The personal dimension of an entrepreneurial competence: An approach from the Spanish basic education context Antonio Bernal and Francisco Liñán 14. Approaches to entrepreneurship education: A qualitative review and comparison of the US and Canada Ravi S. Ramani, George T. Solomon and Nawaf Alabduljader Index

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education reveals valuable new perspectives for understanding higher education. Higher education plays an ever-greater role in contemporary life, creating innovation, skills, prosperity, and wellbeing, and is therefore of increasing importance to understand.Crafted as a sophisticated entry point, this Handbook takes a wide look at the topic, the state of contemporary research, and future directions. An array of expert international contributors examine important and contentious issues such as who should pay, how to keep higher education accountable, the assurance of quality, boosting productivity and affordability, and the role of states and markets. Experts explain how universities relate to states and societies, the political economy of higher education, planning and resource allocation, regulation and quality, and the politics of stakeholder interests.Unpacking key issues for both researchers new to the sector and experts alike, this topical Handbook will prove essential and thought-provoking reading for government policymakers, social science researchers, higher education executives, as well as instructors of graduate courses.Contributors include: B. Cantwell, H. Coates, A. Boggs, J. Brennan, A. Calderon, D.G. Carew, B. Chapman, G. Croucher, G. Davis, R. Deem, T. Depaola, D. Dohmen, R. Fearnside, C.A. Goldman, A. Grimm, E. Halford, T. Hicks, E. Jerez, B. Jongbloed, A. Kezar, R. King, M. Klemencic, D. Kristoffersen, M. Krongkaew, S. Lee, B. Lepori, M. Lodge, R. Middlehurst, K. Moore, Å. Olsson, B.Y. Park, A. Pettigrew, S. Popenici, B. Pusser, S. Robertson, P. Rohan, C. Sá, E. Sabzalieva, D. Van Damme, M. Van Der Wende, M. Vukasovic, R. Wagenaar, S.U. Weerakkody, M. Wells, R. Yang, C. ZigurasTrade Review'An impressive feature of the Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education is the elegant economy with which it incorporates multiplicity, ambiguity and contestation into clear conceptual and organisational frameworks, beginning with a simple two-way matrix comprising social analysis, social action; rational choice, power and conflict. The array of international contributors includes, amongst others, political theorists and political scientists, economists and sociologists, administrators, managers, institutional leaders, finance specialists and policy advisers. They draw on their higher education research, scholarship, consultancy, practice and policy development in Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, and Africa, as well as Latin America and the Middle East.' --Mary Henkel, retired from Brunel University London, UK'The Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education is much the best available collection of its kind and the editors are to be congratulated. Topic coverage by the distinguished group of contributors is great, and starting with Brian Pusser's brilliant opening chapter, that sweeps across the field, there's a real excitement in much of the writing. This is sharp and authoritative analysis of the politics of higher education, like a coiled spring, for an increasingly political time-a time in which universities themselves are likely to become more political in future.' --Simon Marginson, University College London, ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education and Editor-in-Chief, Higher Education'Politics surrounds academic life. The state, the organization, its actors, and the policies that get developed in tertiary education all function by way of political frameworks. What makes this Handbook useful is not only that it is comprehensive, but also that it crosses national boundaries and provides a geopolitical understanding to complex topics. The authors are experts in the field and the topic is of timely import. Thoughtful. Useful. Provocative.' --William G. Tierney, University of Southern California, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: The politics of higher education Brendan Cantwell, Hamish Coates and Roger King PART 1 THE UNIVERSITY, STATE AND SOCIETY 1. The State and the Civil Society in the Scholarship of Higher Education Brian Pusser 2. Trust, universities and the state Gwilym Croucher and Glyn Davis 3. The politics of university governance and United Kingdom devolution Andrew M. Boggs and Robin Middlehurst 4. Transformations of higher education institutions in the Chinese tradition Rui Yang 5. The Social Dimension of Higher Education: reproductive and transformative John Brennan PART II POLITICAL ECONOMY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 6. Global higher education governance Dirk Van Damme and Marijk Van der Wende 7. Global higher education and variegated regionalisms Susan L. Robertson 8. The geopolitics of academic science Brendan Cantwell and Adam Grimm 9. Scientific nationalism in a globalizing world Creso Sá and Emma Sabzalieva 10. Soft power projection: The political return on investment in international higher education Christopher Ziguras 11. The geopolitics of higher education: pursuing success in an uncertain global environment Angel Calderon PART III PLANNING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION 12. National resource allocation decisions in higher education: Objectives and dilemmas Benedetto Lepori and Ben Jongbloed 13. Higher education funding in the context of competing demands for government expenditure Dieter Dohmen 14. The Political Economy of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme Bruce Chapman and Timothy Hicks 15. The political economy of Thailand’s income contingent and allowance loan (TICAL) scheme: A personal account Medhi Krongkaew 16. Using workforce data to plan higher education degree programs Charles A. Goldman and Diana G. Carew 17. The politics of funding for research and development Alan Pettigrew and Åsa Olsson PART IV REGULATION AND QUALITY 18. Risk-based regulation in higher education: Why, how, when, and what else? Roger King 19. Regulating diversity: The challenges of regulation in pluralistic higher education systems, A UK Case Study Elizabeth Halford 20. Tertiary regulation in Asia: Emerging models Dorte Kristoffersen, Susanna Lee and Rob Fearnside 21. Regulating higher education: National audit explosions in international markets Martin Lodge 22. Transparency is the lynchpin for higher education success Hamish Coates, S. Umesha Weerakkody, Emeline Jerez, Michael Wells and Stefan Popenici PART V THE POLITICS OF STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS 23. Stakeholder organizations and multi-level governance of higher education Martina Vukasovic 24. The gender politics of higher education Rosemary Deem 25. Neoliberalism and faculty roles: The politics of academic work Adrianna Kezar and Tom DePaola 26. Student politics: Between representation and activism Manja Klemenčič and Bo Yun Park 27. University-industry collaboration Peter Rohan and Kenneth Moore 28. Skills and learning gain(s) in twenty-first-century higher education: Politics or policy? Robert Wagenaar Index

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Book SynopsisOffering an empirically rigorous perspective on actionable approaches to entrepreneurship education, including learning, teaching and assessment methods, this book aims to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of entrepreneurship education as it relates to local, regional, national and international contexts. An impressive team of leading international authorities and acclaimed experts provide a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the role and impact of entrepreneurship education in industrially developed and developing countries as well as transition economies. Incorporating a wealth of new, emergent and innovative techniques, this book will allow teachers to effectively encourage future entrepreneurs to realize their ideas and intentions, and to convert them into successful and sustainable small businesses. An excellent addition to current entrepreneurship education literature, this book will be of interest to entrepreneurship teachers, postgraduate and doctoral students, as well as graduate entrepreneurs, for its useful empirical basis, in addition to extensive theoretical and practical knowledge.Contributors include: D. Bolzani, C. Camarero, L. Cisneros S. Coleman, Y. Costin, G. de Jong, J. Delfino, I. Diego, A. Fayolle, A. Fernández-Laviada, R. Fisher, F. Gul, P.D. Hannon, L. Hietanen, L. Huxtable-Thomas, B. Hynes, Y. Israel-Cohen, C. Jones, P. Jones, O. Kaplan, D. Kariv, C. Keen, P. Kyrö, E. Luppi H. Matlay, J.H. Mejia, C. Netana, M. O'Dwyer, A. Penaluna, K. Penaluna, A. Pérez, D. Pickernell, T. Pihkala, M. Redondo, M.P. Rice, A. Robb, H. Ruismäki, E. Ruskovaara, P. San Martín, V. Sanchez-Famoso, J. Seikkula-Leino, W.C. Stitt, M. Zaheer AsgharTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: entrepreneurial trends meet entrepreneurial education Dafna Kariv, Harry Matlay and Alain Fayolle PART I THE KEY ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL PEDAGOGIES 2. ‘I’m a designer, get me out of here’: can entrepreneurial education advance through learning from design education? Andrew Penaluna and Kathryn Penaluna 3. A portfolio of integrative and reinforcing pedagogies Mark P. Rice and William C. Stitt 4. Beyond content and pedagogy: the role of self and place in entrepreneurial leadership development Louisa Huxtable-Thomas and Paul D. Hannon 5. Explicit and tacit knowledge transfer in entrepreneurial education: the Method Approach Michele O’Dwyer, Yvonne Costin and Briga Hynes PART II WHY DO ENTREPRENEURSHIP TEACHERS MATTER? 6. A study of the entrepreneurship education curriculum adaptation process among in-service vocational education teachers Muhammad Zaheer Asghar, Paula Kyrö and Fariha Gul 7. Developing entrepreneurship education in Europe: teachers’ commitment to entrepreneurship education in the UK, Finland and Spain Jaana Seikkula-Leino, Elena Ruskovaara, Timo Pihkala, Iván Diego Rodríguez and Jane Delfino 8. Enhancing students’ latent nascent entrepreneurship in basic education Lenita Hietanen and Heikki Ruismäki 9. Teachers as role models in entrepreneurship education: perspectives from the point of view of entrepreneurs Paula San-Martín, Ana Fernández-Laviada and Andrea Pérez PART III THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION 10. Providing effective entrepreneurship education: a UK perspective Paul Jones, David Pickernell, Rebecca Connolly and Celia Netana 11. The assessment of transversal competences in entrepreneurship education Elena Luppi and Daniela Bolzani 12. Entrepreneurship education as perspective transformation Colin Jones and Harry Matlay 13. Over one hundred years in management education: the evolution processes of academic entrepreneurship Christian Keen, Valeriano Sanchez-Famoso, Luis Cisneros and Jorge-Humberto Mejia-Morelos PART IV INNOVATIVE PROGRAMMES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION 14. The Rising Tide Angel Training Program: education for the ecosystem (not just for the entrepreneur!) Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb 15. University business incubators: mechanisms to transform ideas into businesses María Redondo and Carmen Camarero 16. Prospects and challenges of disruptive innovation in the management and social science academic curriculum: a case study approach Yael Israel-Cohen and Oren Kaplan 17. Educating sustainable entrepreneurship: the case of the University of Groningen Gjalt de Jong Index

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Book Synopsis'Lucid, compelling evidence on the need for systemic change within academia and scientific research institutions to make the most of women s talents.' - Helen Wollaston, Chief Executive, WISE This timely book brings together expert scholarly contributions based on individual and institutional experiences of gender inequality in Europe and the USA. Featuring key empirical insights, contributors explore the ways in which gender produces differences in opportunities across STEM subjects in universities. Leading authors in the field investigate and propose strategies to improve gender equality in academic environments by focusing on how to overcome indifference, cultural resistance and backlash. This book not only demonstrates the reality of women's networking experiences in STEM in different geographical and institutional contexts but provides evidence of the effectiveness of specific measures introduced to combat inequality in science and innovation. Enlightening and provocative, this book introduces key insights and critical questions for researchers of gender inequality in science and innovation. This book will also be vital for researchers and students of entrepreneurship as the need for a firm interrogation of the causes and consequences of gender inequality in business grows. Contributors include: M.C. Agodi, S. Bagchi-Sen, N. Baines, R. Biancheri, N. Buzás, S. Cervia, G. Chapman, L. Edmunds, H. Etzkowitz, L. Foss, F. Ghahramani, J.R. Gottwald, S. Hardy, N. Hewitt-Dundas, C. Henry, S. Huszár, L.S. Kawano, H. Lawton Smith, J. Le Roux, C. Leggon, R. Lund, P. McGowan, C.L. McNeely, V. Meschitti, L. Messina, A. Micozzi, F. Micozzi, A. O'Neill, B. O'Gorman, M. Panton, I. Picardi, A. Poulovassilis, S. Prónay, P.A. Rogerson, S. Rosser, K. Seely-Gant, J. Shockro, K. SoharTrade Review'A comprehensive collection of articles on women scientists in academia at various stages of careers in science and on women in medicine and innovation, interrogating structures and gender equality programs, this book provides a rich insight and a thorough update on the current situation of women in science.' --Namrata Gupta, IIT Kanpur Campus, India'This book turns a timely spotlight on gender imbalances and the stalled gender revolution in the academic science field, including technical entrepreneurship. Comprehensive case exemplars and strategic insights make it a must-read not only for researchers with interest in the field, but also for all those seeking inspiration on how to advance gender equality in the sciences and academia.' --Anne de Bruin, Massey University, New Zealand'This collection is a compelling read for those interested in the state of gender relations in the science and innovation domains. Its critical feminist stance challenges the reader to reflect on the nature and causes of gender inequality and, more importantly, the cultural shift required to address these imbalances.' --Maura McAdam, DCU Business School, Republic of IrelandTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Sally Hardy xvii 1 Introduction: pipeline break 1 Henry Etzkowitz, Helen Lawton Smith, Colette Henry and Alexandra Poulovassilis PART I GENDER CULTURES AND INSTITUTIONS 2 Being an early career academic: is there space for gender equality in the neoliberal university? 16 Viviana Meschitti 3 Becoming a professor requires saying ‘No’: merging equality and quality agendas in a Norwegian gender balance project 35 Rebecca Lund 4 The National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE programme: issues for senior compared to junior academic women scientists 58 Sue Rosser 5 Using the embedded case study approach to analyse the leaky pipeline phenomenon in academic careers 82 Silvia Cervia 6 Feminization of the medical profession 106 Rita Biancheri 7 Resistance to women in academic medicine 128 Laurel D. Edmunds PART II NETWORKING, MENTORING AND SUPPORT 8 Networking, gender and academia: an ecosystems approach 146 Colette Henry, Helen Lawton Smith, Viviana Meschitti, Lene Foss and Pauric McGowan 9 Academic support for female entrepreneurs: the positive lasting effects of learning networks 168 Aisling O’Neill and Bill O’Gorman 10 Gender perspective in mentoring relationships: a case study of GENOVATE@UNINA 189 Ilenia Picardi and Maria Carmela Agodi 11 Gender and international collaborations in science and technology community building and policy agenda setting: an integrated analytical approach 215 Connie L. McNeely and Katie Seely-Gant PART III ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION, COMMERCIALIZATION 12 Gender differences in the commercialisation of research: a study in UK universities 242 Helen Lawton Smith, Viviana Meschitti, Jeanne Le Roux, Mark Panton, Ning Baines, Alexandra Poulovassilis and Colette Henry 13 Unfolding the factors affecting female scientists’ intentions in spin- off creation: a Central European case study 261 S.ndor Huszár, Szabolcs Prónay and Norbert Buzàs 14 Gender diversity in R&D teams and its impact on firm openness 282 Lisa Messina, Gary Chapman and Nola Hewitt-Dundas 15 The entrepreneurial intention in female university students: an Italian case 305 Alessandra Micozzi and Francesca Micozzi 16 Gender, race and entrepreneurship in the United States 328 Cheryl B. Leggon 17 Trends and determinants of women in patenting in the United States 348 Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Peter Rogerson 18 AUTM Women Inventors Committee: working to close the gender gap in university patenting 361 Kathleen Sohar, Forough Ghahramani, Jennifer Gottwald, Linda Kawano and Jennifer Shockro 19 Gender equity and equality: resistance and advance in academic science and innovation 380 Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor and Leila Maria Kehl Index 405

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Book SynopsisThe next decade will be transformative for the higher education sector. Government funding is decreasing. Through their marketing activities universities have created the 'student consumer.' The student consumer is prepared to shop around, compare prices and value, and once purchased expects a return on their investment. Disruptive innovations are challenging traditional forms of learning and in many cases are viewed as better alternatives to traditional learning in the classroom. Competition from private educational providers is increasing. Their cost base is lower, and their customer focus is superior. In short, universities around the world are facing a perfect storm. While experts don't expect the higher education sector to collapse under these challenges, they do believe that for some institutions the future looks bleak. If universities are to avoid closures or mergers, they will need to adopt a market-oriented approach. This timely book urges readers to view students as customers and focuses on how universities need to reinvent themselves in order to stay relevant. Striking a difference between market-oriented and marketing, the authors provide various examples of institutions around the world that are making efforts to reposition themselves. Additionally, this book delves into the issue of undervalued faculty, arguing that education practices are in desperate need of being reimagined due to the abundance of MOOCs and adaptive and experiential learning practices within universities these days. Both university and academic leaders alike, including presidents, provosts, deans, and faculty will find value in the instructional aspects of this book as they relate to their involvement with institutional advancement agendas as well as providing insight into the changing nature of higher education and the evolving definition of what an academic career now entails.Trade ReviewThe Market Oriented University provides a truly insightful look into the agents of change across the university systems. By offering a refreshing interpretation from a market-oriented view, John Davis and Mark Farrell make a compelling case for the reader to reassess the fundamental purpose of universities. This book is a must-read for all stakeholders of the educational system - administrators, faculty, students, parents, tax-payers, and policy-makers alike.' --Jin K. Han, Singapore Management University, Singapore'Most universities around the world are substantial enterprises involved in stiff competition for students, staff and resources. The leaders of universities are not in charge of quiet, cloistered ivory towers separated from the larger world. To the contrary, they are major participants in the economics and culture of their regions, and, often, in a number of international undertakings. Professors Davis and Farrell argue that university leaders should recognize these realities and then provide roadmaps for confronting marketplace realities successfully. This is not another book that says ''universities should be run like businesses.'' The authors are experienced enough to understand that the long term purposes of universities are different from those of a typical for profit corporation. But they recognize that universities can, and should, adopt behaviours that will maximize their abilities to compete successfully to attract students, to recruit and retain competent faculty and support staff, and to obtain financial support from both public and private sources. Being oriented to the ''market'' is simple common sense. The outline of issues and possible responses to those issues should be required reading anyone with leadership responsibilities within a modern university.' --Howard Hunter, Singapore Management University'This volume provides the reader with a clear and careful analysis of how universities may become market-oriented, as opposed to being marketing-oriented. More than writing either a simple history of university behaviors or a 'to do' list - whilst addressing both issues - Davis and Farrell offer a fascinating and persuasive reflection on how universities and their markets have been evolving into the 21st century world of increasingly vigorous competition, rapidly changing technology, and dwindling government financial support. The book draws on the authors' deep understanding and knowledge of the tertiary sector and marketing strategy, making its reading vital for all university managers and academics.' --Christopher Adam, UNSW AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Towards a Market Oriented University 2. Competition and Rankings 3. Delivering Student Satisfaction 4. Disrupting Higher Education 5. From Marketing to Market Orientation 6. Developing and Maintaining a Market-Oriented University 7. Understanding the Market 8. Developing Strategic Directions 9. Differentiating, Positioning and Branding the University Index

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Book SynopsisThis exemplary Handbook provides readers with a novel synthesis of international research, evidence-based practice and personal reflections to offer an overview of the current state of knowledge in the field of teaching geography in higher education. Chapters cover the three key transitions - into, through, and out of higher education - to present a thorough analysis of the topic. With key contributions from top scholars, the Handbook investigates student transitions, exploring how students require different pedagogical approaches as they progress through university or college. A wide range of learning contexts relevant to the breadth of spaces and places in which geography teaching takes place is used to provide examples of how teaching and learning in geography can be enhanced. It identifies key principles including working in partnership and acknowledging the whole student, calling for the adoption of courageous pedagogy. With a useful resources section included in each chapter, this Handbook is a vital reference source for those teaching geography in higher education settings. Written in an accessible style, it will also be of use to early career geographers and those who are new to teaching, including postgraduate students. Contributors: C. Arrowsmith, K. Barton, S. Brail, J. Bullard, G. Butt, W. Cartwright, L. Clarke, D. Conradson, M. DeMers, S. Dyer, J. Esson, M. Finn, E.H. Fouberg, D. France, I.C. Fuller, A.L. Griffin, M. Haigh, R.L. Healey, J. Hill, R. Hodgkins, P. Hopkins, M. Horswell, A. Hovorka, A. Hughes, N.T. Huynh, J. Kerski, P. Klein, P.E. Kneale, A. Last, J. Lee, A. Maddrell, N. McDuff, G. Miller, L. Mol, N. Moore-Cherry, C. Mott, A. Parton, E. Pawson, M. Poskitt, K. Ramdas, C. Ribchester, B. Rink, Z.P. Robinson, J. Salo, D.M. Schultz, I.D.H. Shepherd, M. Solem, R. Spronken-Smith, S. Tate, T. Vowles, H. Walkington, R.I. Waller, K. Whalen, E. Wigley, P. Wolf, N. WorthTrade Review'This book is a much-needed comprehensive overview of recent research and practices on teaching geography in higher education. Written by leading researchers, it provides not only insights but also practical applications for lecturing, assessment and innovation in geography pedagogy.' --Jongwon Lee, Ewha Womans University, South Korea'Written by an acclaimed team of international scholars, this Handbook is invaluable for both early career and established geography faculty in higher education internationally, as well as for individuals, course teams and departments. It provides practical and research-based advice on a wide range of disciplinary and wider higher education issues.' --Alan Jenkins, Oxford Brookes, UK and co-founding editor of the Journal of Geography in Higher EducationTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Geography 1 Helen Walkington, Jennifer Hill and Sarah Dyer PART I PEDAGOGIES TO SUPPORT TRANSITION INTO HIGHER EDUCATION 2. Student perspectives on the importance of both academic and social transitions to and through their undergraduate geography degree 16 Simon Tate and Peter Hopkins 3. Bridging the divide between school and university geography – ‘mind the gap!’ 31 Graham Butt 4. Embodied teaching and learning through a large lecture: strategies for place-based pedagogies 46 Matt Finn and Carrie Mott 5. Measuring learning for the masses: assessment strategies for large classes 59 Bradley Rink 6. Finding your way in liminal space: threshold concepts and curriculum design in geography 71 Erin H. Fouberg 7. Fieldwork as transition pedagogy for non-specialist students in geography: promoting collaborative learning amidst uncertainty 87 Kamalini Ramdas 8. Supportive learning environments and the transition to university 99 David Conradson 9. Teaching in a multi- or interdisciplinary context 110 Amy L. Griffin 10. Co-pedagogy: teaching together for successful student learning 123 Sarah Dyer 11. Pedagogies for developing undergraduate ethical thinking within geography 139 Ruth L. Healey and Chris Ribchester 12. Information literacy: benefits, challenges and practical strategies 151 Richard I. Waller, Gill Miller and David M. Schultz PART II PEDAGOGIES TO FACILITATE MORE AUTONOMOUS LEARNING 13. Inclusive teaching and learning practices in geography 168 Annie Hughes and Nona McDuff 14. Developing and integrating a student-researcher pedagogy within the geography curriculum 183 Helen Walkington 15. Who owns the curriculum? Co-production of an evolving research-informed module 198 Richard Hodgkins and Joanna Bullard 16. Conveying geographic concepts through issues-based inquiry 211 Phil Klein, Karen Barton, Jessica Salo, Jieun Lee and Timothy Vowles 17. Learning and teaching about race and racism in geography 227 James Esson and Angela Last 18. Teaching challenging material: emotional geographies and geographies of death 241 Avril Maddrell and Edward Wigley 19. Geography as responsibility: sustainability through teaching and learning within geography 256 Zoe P. Robinson 20. Enhancing internationalisation in the geography undergraduate curriculum 269 Ash Parton and Martin Haigh 21. Heutagogy, personal learning environments, and multi-path entry into GIS education 284 Michael DeMers 22. Field-based pedagogies for developing learners’ independence 299 Ian C. Fuller and Derek France PART III CAPSTONE AND BRIDGING PEDAGOGIES FOR THE FINAL YEAR 23. Pedagogical partnerships, identity building and self-authorship in geography higher education 314 Niamh Moore-Cherry 24. Taking ownership: active learning and student engagement 329 Eric Pawson and Mark Poskitt 25. Examining the potential of experiential learning as pedagogy for senior undergraduate students 342 Shauna Brail and Kate Whalen 26. Fieldwork in the undergraduate geography curriculum: developing graduate skills 357 Lisa Mol, Michael Horswell and Lucy Clarke 27. Authentic assessment and feedback to develop lifelong learning 371 Jennifer Hill and Nancy Worth 28. Capstones in geography 386 Alice Hovorka and Peter Wolf 29. Learning for work 399 Ifan D.H. Shepherd 30. Embedding employability skills in the curriculum and extending into postgraduate programs 414 Colin Arrowsmith and William Cartwright 31. Graduate attributes in geography higher education 430 Rachel Spronken-Smith 32. Teaching geography students about careers 443 Michael Solem, Niem Tu Huynh and Joseph Kerski 33. Exploring pedagogic tensions in final year programme design 458 Pauline E. Kneale 34. Teaching, learning and assessing in geography: a foundation for the future 474 Jennifer Hill, Helen Walkington and Sarah Dyer Index 487

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Book SynopsisExamining the modern day challenges faced by academics throughout their working lives, this timely book investigates the ways in which academic careers are changing, the reasons for these changes and their potential future impacts. Contributors with experience of work in both traditional and contemporary institutions utilise theoretical and empirical methods to provide international perspectives on the key issues confronting modern day academics. Split across three chronological parts this book guides the reader through the phases of an academic's working life and the unique challenges encountered at each stage. For those entering academia key issues considered relate to career paths and motivations and transitions from industry to academia. During academia chapters study the understanding of external examiners, questions surrounding student supervision, work-life balance, use of technology and the trade off between teaching and research. Upon leaving academia concerns turn to the difficulties of working past retirement age and emeritus roles. Exploring how academics survive and thrive in the modern higher education arena, this analytical book will be a useful tool for new and established academics and policy makers working in higher education as well as for programme leaders in educational management. Contributors include: A. Agarwal, D. Anderton, K.E. Andreasen, M. Antoniadou, W. Chambers, C. Cook, M. Crowder, P. Cureton, E. Epaminonda, M. Gibson-Sweet, J. Haddock-Fraser, J. Jones, A. Karayiannis, H. Kogetsidis, P.D. Ktoridou, S.-J. Lennie, B. Longden, S. Marriott, M. Mouratidou, T. Proctor, A. Rasmussen, C. Rees, S.K. Rehbock, K. Rowlands, P.J. Sandiford, J. Stewart, S. WellsTrade Review'This is a timely and welcome book, providing both fascinating insights into the changing role of academics and an articulate discussion of the impact of these changes on universities around the world. By highlighting the various challenges that academics navigate over the course of their careers, from managing workloads to engaging in emotional labour through to adopting new technologies, it provides a critical and valuable basis for future debates over the evolving role of academics and indeed their universities.' --Anna Sutton, University of Waikato, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: Introduction xvii PART I ENTERING ACADEMIA 1 Living the dream … but for how long? Being an early-career academic in the context of ‘excellence’ 2 Marilena Antoniadou 2 Career transitions from industry to academia 16 Mark Crowder and Maria Mouratidou 3 Career issues, paths and motivations: career stories of four UK academics 31 Maria Mouratidou 4 Three scholars at work: making sense of the twenty-first century academy 44 Peter John Sandiford, Ankit Agarwal and Sam Wells PART II DURING ACADEMIA 5 Get me a job! Thinking about student employability 67 Dane Anderton and Sue Marriott 6 From euphoria to letting go: experiences of cross-cultural adaptation of international academics in UK higher education 82 Marilena Antoniadou 7 Exploring perceptions of academic management roles in the undergraduate student experience 99 Marilena Antoniadou, Mark Crowder and Jim Stewart 8 External examiners: what do they do and how does someone become one? 120 Mark Crowder 9 ‘Signature of mediocrity’? Variability and uncertainty associated with PhD assessment processes in the UK 135 Christopher J. Rees and Kate E. Rowlands 10 Providing research supervision: a personal polemic 152 Jim Stewart 11 The effects of control on academic engagement, work–life balance and work–life conflict: is how we manage and what we measure actually contributing to what we strive to pursue? 168 Caryn Cook, Joanna Jones and Monica Gibson-Sweet 12 The balance between teaching and research: challenges and contradictions in the context of the modern university 183 Annette Rasmussen and Karen E. Andreasen 13 Caring and coping: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of lecturers’ emotional labour in the context of higher education commercialisation and the consequences for staff and student wellbeing 196 Sarah-Jane Lennie 14 The unseen pressures of academia 211 Janet Haddock-Fraser 15 Apps and smartphone technology acceptance: lecturers’ likelihood of using interactive polling systems in the lecture theatre 226 Dane Anderton 16 Being an academic in an era of rapid technological change and distance learning education: views of faculty members of a business school 238 Harry Kogetsidis, Despo Ktoridou, Epaminondas Epaminonda and Achilleas Karayiannis 17 Academic leadership: challenges and opportunities for leaders and leadership development in higher education 252 Stephanie K. Rehbock 18 Institutional research: unintended consequences in higher education 265 Bernard Longden PART III LEAVING ACADEMIA 19 Academics moving from higher education institutions: careers of PhDs after graduation 286 Annette Rasmussen and Karen E. Andreasen 20 Retirement: a valediction to work? 300 Peter Cureton 21 Working past retirement age: from the point of view of a business and management academic 312 Tony Proctor 22 But I don’t like golf: emeritus roles 324 William Chambers Conclusion: time for a change 349 Index 353

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Book SynopsisThe European higher education sector is moving online, but to what extent? Are the digital disruptions seen in other sectors of relevance for both academics and management in higher education? How far are we from fully seizing the opportunities that an online transition could offer? This insightful book offers a broad perspective on existing academic practices, and discusses how and where the move online has been successful, and the lessons that can be learned.Higher Education in the Digital Age offers readers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which a move into online academia can be made. Analysing successful case studies, the original contributions to this timely book address the core activities of an academic institution - education, research, and research communication - instead of focusing only on online learning or digital strategies relevant for individual academics. Chapters cover online and networked learning, as well as the myriad ways in which the digital age can improve research and knowledge exchange with experts and society more widely. Academics, managers and policy makers in higher education institutions will greatly benefit from the up-to-date case studies and advice outlined in this book. Academic administrators and academic project leaders will also find this a useful tool for improving the accessibility of their work.Contributors include: D. Bernardo, A. Birdi, P. Bryant, C. Canestrini, C. Gilson, J.- M. Glachant, J. Haywood, L. Marr, I. Peña-López, G. Porcaro, S. Sissonen, B. Stewart, S. Williams, A. ZornTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Annika Zorn, Jeff Haywood and Jean-Michel Glachant 1. The transformation of distance learning at Open University. The need for a new pedagogy for online learning? Liz Marr 2. Making education better. Implementing pedagogical change through technology in a modern institution Peter Bryant 3. Translearning. Unfolding educational institutions to scaffold lifelong networked learning Ismael Peña-López 4. How to design a 21st century online course that makes learning happen for all Annika Zorn, Salla Sissonen and Chiara Canestrini 5. Leading innovation: Digital education in a traditional university Jeff Haywood 6. CORE. Bringing the economics curriculum online Alvin Birdi 7. Identity at the core. Open and digital scholarly leadership Bonnie Stewart 8. Sharing knowledge at a research university. Experiences from London School of Economics Sierra Williams and Chris Gilson 9. Effective online communication for policy advisors. Experience from Bruegel think tank Giuseppe Porcaro 10. Moving a higher education school online. Florence School of Regulation’s all-around online-ization Annika Zorn, Daniela Bernardo and Chiara Canestrini Conclusions Annika Zorn, Jeff Haywood and Jean-Michel Glachant Epilogue Salla Sissonen Index

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Book Synopsis'In this timely book, Professor Gordon Rausser explores the changing landscape of university-industry relations, informed by his unusual background as a pioneer in Public Private Research Partnerships (PPRPs) while serving as Dean of the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley. Scholars, administrators, and industry executives who are interested in industry/university partnerships will find a treasure of information and insights in this beautifully written book.'- Steve P. Briggs, University of California, San Diego'As public/private partnerships have become increasingly important to the funding of academic research, it is essential not only to learn from past institutional experience of such partnerships, but to create templates that optimize their structure for both partners. In his important book, Structuring Public-Private Research Partnerships for Success, Gordon Rausser has set himself to both tasks. All those who think about such partnerships will learn from this book.'- Carol Christ, University of California, BerkeleyUniversity research has played an essential role in economic growth by generating public good outputs that have not readily lent themselves to private market development. As funding for universities and governmental research units has declined, these institutions have turned to the private sector to augment their research and development budgets. This book presents a framework for structuring public-private research partnerships that protect both these institutions' academic freedom and the private firm's corporate interests. The authors present a four-stage framework that recognizes the critical role of 'control rights' and reveals how these rights can be effectively identified, valued, and allocated between research partners. The book provides a number of template designs for a variety of research partnerships, including tactics and strategies for implementing successful public-private research partnerships. It further provides case studies with examples of both successful and unsuccessful research partnerships. The book demonstrates that universities are empowered when they pursue private partners actively and when contracts preserve academic freedom, address confidentiality, specify intellectual property rights, define access to proprietary data, clarify the conflict resolution process, and address potential publication delays.This book is an essential and illuminating resource for academic researchers in economics and public policy departments, technology transfer offices, as well as others involved in university and public administration.Trade Review'The landscape for financing research has changed, and continues to change. Universities and other public enterprises are increasingly reliant on support from the private sector through grants, contracts, agreements, and other forms of public-private partnerships, many of which involve some shared interest in the outcome. Navigating this evolving landscape is challenging for participants in the private and public sector alike. Economists and others have written on various aspects, but piecemeal. Structuring Public-Private Research Partnerships for Success is the first comprehensive analysis of the incentive issues that arise in the formation and management of public-private research partnerships (PPRPs). It presents a framework for analyzing the structure of contracts for PPRPs and devising appropriately designed research agreements, supported by in-depth analytical treatment of many of the real-world challenges that arise in this context. This book is an invaluable reference for economists and others who are grappling with how to design research funding institutions that will succeed and enable public research enterprises to continue to flourish and achieve their public purposes in an era of ever-tighter government purse-strings.' --Julian M. Alston, University of California, Davis'Professor Rausser's book is unique in its focus on university efforts to negotiate research funding from the private sector, a crucial concern in this era of vanishing federal funding for basic research. It is especially noteworthy for its rigorous but accessible analyses of the tradeoff between basic and applied research in universities, and the process of bargaining between universities and businesses over research focus and funding. The lessons learned from the case studies analyzed are important to, and should be required reading for, all university administrators concerned about funding research.' --Richard Jensen, University of Notre Dame'Over the last 50 years, we have seen the emergence of an educational-industrial complex where university innovation and knowledge provide the foundation for cutting-edge industrial development. This new book is a must-read to understand the most exciting and controversial chapter in the evolution of the educational-industrial complex, namely, university/industry partnerships. The book provides an insightful conceptual framework for the design of such partnerships and analyzes the implications of actual contracts. The sound use of economic principles in institutional design will help to identify the pitfalls of bad design. The highlights of the book are the fascinating case studies of such arrangements, in particular, the Berkeley/Novartis arrangement. Since university/industry partnerships are likely to proliferate, this book provides essential reading for properly designing these partnerships. The book will be of much interest to both applied and theoretical economists and to practitioners and scholars of research and development and institutional design.' --David Zilberman, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Public Research Enterprises: The Changing Landscape 2. The Scientific Research Process 3. Public Good Versus Private Good Research: The Empirical Evidence 4. Crowding-in Versus Crowding-out of Public Good Research 5. Knowledge Creation and the Research and Development Process 6. PPRPs: The Benefits and Risks of the Bargain 7. Governance Structures and Collective Decision Making 8. Incomplete Contracts and Control Premiums 9. Impure Goods and the Structure of Contracts 10. The Structural Setting: The Stages of Research and Development 11. Lessons and Recommendations Index

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Book SynopsisNew Directions in the Economics of Higher Education provides an overview of the vibrant and growing field of the economics of higher education. The text assesses the full breadth of the topic, including the returns to higher education, college attendance and completion, higher education financing, educational production, and the market for higher education. This comprehensive literature review puts the collected papers into the perspective of developments in the wider literature on the economics of higher education over the past decade.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Ludger Woessmann and Eric Bettinger PART I RETURNS TO HIGHER EDUCATION A. General Returns 1. Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz (2008), ‘The Race between Education and Technology’, in The Race between Education and Technology, Chapter 8, Appendix D.1, [notes and references], London, UK and Massachusetts, USA: Harvard University Press, 287–323 2. David H. Autor, Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane (2003), ‘The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (4), November, 1279–333 [55] 3. David Card (2001), ‘Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems’, Econometrica, 69 (5), September, 1127–60 [34] 4. Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman and Edward J. Vytlacil (2011), ‘Estimating Marginal Returns to Education’, American Economic Review, 101 (6), October, 2754–81 [28] 5. Philip Oreopoulos and Uros Petronijevic (2013), ‘Making College Worth It: A Review of the Returns to Higher Education’, The Future of Children, 23 (1), Spring, 41–65 [25] B. Non-pecuniary Returns, Signalling, and Consumption 6. Janet Currie and Enrico Moretti (2003), ‘Mother’s Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College Openings’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (4), November, 1495–532 [38] 7. Carolina Arteaga (2018), ‘The Effect of Human Capital on Earnings: Evidence from a Reform at Colombia's Top University’, Journal of Public Economics, 157, 212–25 [14] 8. Brian Jacob, Brian McCall and Kevin Stange (2018), ‘College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students’ Preferences for Consumption?’, Journal of Labor Economics, 36 (2), December, 309–48 [40] C. Heterogeneity in Returns 9. Thomas J. Kane and Cecelia Elena Rouse (1995), ‘Labor-Market Returns to Two and Four Year College’, American Economic Review, 85 (3), June, 600–14 [15] 10. Mark Hoekstra (2009), ‘The Effect of Attending the Flagship State University on Earnings: A Discontinuity-Based Approach’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 91 (4), 717–24 [8] 11. Seth D. Zimmerman (2014), ‘The Returns to College Admission for Academically Marginal Students’, Journal of Labor Economics, 32 (4), 711–54 [44] 12. David J. Deming, Noam Yuchtman, Amira Abulafi, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz (2016), ‘The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study’, American Economic Review, 106 (3), March, 778–806 [29] D. Fields of Study 13. Joseph G. Altonji, Erica Blom and Costas Meghir (2012), ‘Heterogeneity in Human Capital Investments: High School Curriculum, College Major, and Careers’, Annual Review of Economics, 4, 185–223 [39] 14. Lars J. Kirkeboen, Edwin Leuven and Magne Mogstad (2016), ‘Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-selection’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 131 (3), 1057–112 [56] 15. Matthew Wiswall and Basit Zafar (2015), ‘Determinants of College Major Choice: Identification using an Information Experiment’, Review of Economic Studies, 82 (2), April, 791–824 [34] E. Social Returns 16. Enrico Moretti (2004), ‘Workers' Education, Spillovers, and Productivity: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions’, American Economic Review, 94 (3), June, 656–90 [35] 17. Adam B. Jaffe (1989), ‘Real Effects of Academic Research’, American Economic Review, 79 (5), December, 957–70 [14] 18. Otto Toivanen and Lotta Väänänen (2016), ‘Education and Invention’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 98 (2), 382–96 [15] PART II COLLEGE ATTENDANCE AND COMPLETION [402 pp] A. College Attendance 19. John Bound, Michael F. Lovenheim and Sarah Turner (2010), ‘Why Have College Completion Rates Declined? An Analysis of Changing Student Preparation and Collegiate Resources’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2 (3), July, 129–57 [29] 20. Kevin M. Stange (2012), ‘An Empirical Investigation of the Option Value of College Enrollment’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4 (1), January, 49–84 [36] 21. Paco Martorell and Isaac McFarlin Jr. (2011), ‘Help or Hindrance? The Effects of College Remediation on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 93 (2), May, 436–54 [19] B. Affirmative Action 22. Peter Arcidiacono (2005), ‘Affirmative Action in Higher Education: How Do Admission and Financial Aid Rules Affect Future Earnings?’, Econometrica, 73 (5), September, 1477–524 [48] 23. Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo and V. Joseph Hotz (2016), ‘University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California’, American Economic Review, 106 (3), March, 525–62 [38] 24. Surendrakumar Bagde, Dennis Epple and Lowell Taylor (2016), ‘Does Affirmative Action Work? Caste, Gender, College Quality, and Academic Success in India’, American Economic Review, 106 (6), June, 1495–521 [27] C. Behavioral Interventions 25. Susan M. Dynarski and Judith E. Scott-Clayton (2006), ‘The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics’, National Tax Journal, 59 (2), June, 319–56 [38] 26. Eric P. Bettinger, Bridget Terry Long, Philip Oreopoulos and Lisa Sanbonmatsu (2012), ‘The Role of Application Assistance and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block Fafsa Experiment’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (3), 1205–242 [38] 27. Caroline M. Hoxby and Sarah Turner (2015), ‘What High-Achieving Low-Income Students Know About College’, American Economic Review, 105 (5), May, 514–17 [4] 28. Benjamin L. Castleman and Lindsay C. Page (2016), ‘Freshman Year Financial Aid Nudges: An Experiment to Increase FAFSA Renewal and College Persistence’, Journal of Human Resources, 51 (2), Spring, 389–415 [27] 29. Sarena Goodman (2016), ‘Learning from the Test: Raising Selective College Enrollment by Providing Information’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 98 (4), October, 671–84 [14] D. Incentives 30. Joshua D. Angrist, Daniel Lang and Philip Oreopoulos (2009), ‘Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1 (1), January, 136–63 [28] 31. Judith Scott-Clayton (2011), ‘On Money and Motivation: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Financial Incentives for College Achievement’, Journal of Human Resources, 46 (3), 614–46 [33] 32. Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw (2010), ‘The Effect of Financial Rewards on Students' Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment’, Journal of the European Economic Association, 8 (6), 1243–65 [23] Volume II Acknowledgements Introduction An Introduction by the editors appear in Volume I PART I HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCING [482 pp] A. Costs and Tuition 1. Thomas J. Kane, Peter R. Orszag, Emil Apostolov and Robert P. Inman (2005), ‘Higher Education Appropriations and Public Universities: Role of Medicaid and the Business Cycle’, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 99–146 [48] 2. Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Claudio Goldin (2014), ‘Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges’, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 6 (4), November, 174–206 [33] 3. Pietro Garibaldi, Francesco Giavazzi, Andrea Ichino and Enrico Rettore (2012), ‘College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 94 (3), August, 699–711 [13] 4. Jeffrey T. Denning (2017), ‘College on the Cheap: Consequences of Community College Tuition Reductions’, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9 (2), May, 155–88 [34] B. Student Aid 5. Susan M. Dynarski (2003), ‘Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion’, American Economic Review, 93 (1), March, 279–88 [10] 6. Wilbert Van Der Klaauw (2002), ‘Estimating the Effect of Financial Aid Offers on College Enrollment: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach’, International Economic Review, 43 (4), November, 1249–87 [39] 7. Sarah R. Cohodes and Joshua S. Goodman (2014), ‘Merit Aid, College Quality, and College Completion: Massachusetts’ Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6 (4), October, 251–85 [35] 8. Gabrielle Fack and Julien Grenet (2015), ‘Improving College Access and Success for Low-Income Students: Evidence from a Large Need-Based Grant Program’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7 (2), April, 1–34 [34] 9. Benjamin M. Marx and Lesley J. Turner (2018), ‘Borrowing Trouble? Human Capital Investment with Opt-in Costs and Implications for the Effectiveness of Grant Aid’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10 (2), April, 163–201 [39] C. Student Loans and Credit Constraints 10. Pedro Carneiro and James Heckman (2002), ‘The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling’, Economic Journal, 112 (482), October, 705–34 [30] 11. Lance J. Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo (2011), ‘The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital’, American Economic Review, 101 (6), October, 2487–529 [43] 12. Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd Stinebrickner (2008), ‘The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-out Decision: A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study’, American Economic Review, 98 (5), December, 2163–84 [22] 13. Harald Beyer, Justine Hastings, Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman (2015), ‘Connecting Student Loans to Labor Market Outcomes: Policy Lessons from Chile’, American Economic Review, 105 (5), May, 508–13 [6] 14. Alex Solis (2017), ‘Credit Access and College Enrollment’, Journal of Political Economy, 125 (2), April, 562–622 [61] 15. Michael F. Lovenheim and C. Lockwood Reynolds (2013), ‘The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom’, Journal of Human Resources, 48 (1), 1–35 [35] PART II EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTION [314 pp] A. Faculty 16. Scott E. Carrell and James E. West (2010), ‘Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors’, Journal of Political Economy, 118 (3), June, 409–32 [24] 17. Robert W. Fairlie, Florian Hoffmann and Philip Oreopoulos (2014), ‘A Community College Instructor like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom’, American Economic Review, 104 (8), August, 2567–91 [25] 18. David N. Figlio, Morton O. Schapiro and Kevin B. Soter (2015), ‘Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers?’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 97 (4), October, 715–24 [10] B. Online Education 19. Eric P. Bettinger, Lindsay Fox, Susanna Loeb and Eric S. Taylor (2017), ‘Virtual Classrooms: How Online College Courses Affect Student Success’, American Economic Review, 107 (9), September, 2855–75 [21] 20. Robert W. Fairlie and Rebecca A. London (2012), ‘The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students’, Economic Journal, 122 (561), June, 727–53 [27] C. Peer Effects 21. Bruce Sacerdote (2001), ‘Peer Effects with Random Assignment: Results for Dartmouth Roommates’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116 (2), May, 681–704 [24] 22. Scott E. Carell, Bruce I. Sacerdote and James E. West (2013), ‘From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Importance of Endogenous Peer Group Formation’, Econometrica, 81 (3), May, 855–82 [28] 23. Adam S. Booij, Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek (2017), ‘Ability Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment’, Review of Economic Studies, 84 (2), 547–78 [32] D. Knowledge Production 24. Fabian Waldinger (2016), ‘Bombs, Brains, and Science: The Role of Human and Physical Capital for the Creation of Scientific Knowledge’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 98 (5), December, 811–31 [21] 25. Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin and Jialan Wang (2010), ‘Superstar Extinction’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (2), May, 549–89 [41] 26. George J. Borjas and Kirk B. Doran (2012), ‘The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (3), 1143–203 [61] PART III THE MARKET FOR HIGHER EDUCATION [162 pp] A. Higher Education as an Industry 27. Gordon C. Winston (1999), ‘Subsidies, Hierarchy and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 13 (1), Winter, 13–36 [24] 28. Ronald G. Ehrenberg (2012), ‘American Higher Education in Transition’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26 (1), Winter, 193–216 [24] 29. Caroline M. Hoxby (2015), ‘Endowment Management Based on a Positive Model of the University’ in Jeffrey R. Brown, Caroline M. Hoxby (eds), How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education, Chapter 1, Chicago, USA: University of Chicago Press, 15–41 [27] B. Competition and General Equilibrium 30. Dennis Epple, Richard Romano and Holger Sieg (2006), ‘Admission, Tuition, and Financial Aid Policies in the Market for Higher Education’, Econometrica, 74 (4), 885–928 [44] 31. Chistopher N. Avery, Mark E. Glickman, Caroline M. Hoxby and Andrew Metrick (2013), ‘A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128 (1), 425–67 [43] Index

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Book SynopsisStarting from the premise that learning and career development happen naturally and optimally through collaboration and social relationships, this book challenges the dominant employability skills discourse by exploring socially connected and networked perspectives to learning and teaching in higher education. With 10 empirical case studies of educational practice, chapters investigate the development of learner capabilities, teaching approaches, and institutional strategies to foster lifelong graduate employability through social connectedness. The book argues that higher education institutions have placed themselves at a disadvantage in learning and teaching by limiting and prescribing interactions that prevent multidisciplinary and cross-functional collaboration, and embeddedness into wider industry and community networks. The book offers new strategies and pedagogic approaches that can support learners to build, maintain and make the most of social connections for purposeful participation in life and work. It also demonstrates how universities can forge effective partnerships internally as well as with industry and community partners to ensure the relevance and vibrancy of university learning. Offering an alternative perspective on learning and teaching in higher education with international relevance, this book is a practical resource that can be used by educators to inform teaching practice and curriculum development. It will be essential for university leadership, as well as academics and researchers focused on education policy and university management.Table of ContentsContents: 1. A Connected Approach to Learning in Higher Education Ruth Bridgstock and Neil Tippett PART I CONNECTEDNESS CAPABILITIES 2. Connectedness Capabilities Ruth Bridgstock and Neil Tippett 3. Students’ Professional Digital Identities Mandy Lupton, Kay Oddone and Neal Dreamson 4. Connectedness Capabilities of Non-Traditional Students: Pedagogical implications Margarietha J. de Villiers Scheepers, Joanna McIntyre, Gail Crimmins and Peter English 5. Social Connectedness and Graduate Employability: Exploring the Professional Networks of Graduates from Business and Creative Industries Ruth Bridgstock, Denise Jackson, Kate Lloyd and Matalena Tofa PART II CONNECTEDNESS PEDAGOGIES 6. Connectedness Pedagogies Ruth Bridgstock and Neil Tippett 7. Connectedness Learning in the Life Sciences: LinkedIn as an assessment task for employability and career exploration Jason L. Brown, Michael Healy, Louise Lexis and Brianna L. Julien 8. Indigenous Perspectives on Connected and Networked Learning: Towards holistic connectedness pedagogies Peter Radoll, Peter Copeman, Scott Heyes, Mary Walsh, Sam Byrnand, Brian Egloff with Lance Bartram, Kerani Cameron, Fehin Coffey, Sarah Falusi, Victoria Hales, Robert Liesagang, David Jolley, Catherine Lampe, Natalie Lutan, Joshua Naivalurua, Chilli Platt, Thomas Rigon and Caroline Wallace. Project Elder: Aunty Roslyn Brown, University of Canberra 9. The Capstone Experience: Five principles for a connected curriculum Mitch Goodwin, Kay Are, Michael ‘Maxx’ Schmit, Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins, Wajeehah Aayeshah and Elizabeth Lakey 10. Curriculum Transformation for Graduate Connectedness and Employability: Perspectives from the University of Wollongong Simon Bedford and Kenton Bell PART III INSTITUTIONAL ENABLING STRATEGIES 11. Institutional Enabling Strategies Ruth Bridgstock and Neil Tippett 12. Developing a Connected Learning Community for Social Entrepreneurship through University and High School Collaboration Jeremy Kerr, Natalie Wright and Timothy Barraud 13. Integrating Connectedness Learning into Institutional Program Review Processes in an Australian Regional University Sara Hammer, Peter Ayriss, Marita Basson, Beata Batorowicz, Jo Devine, Melissa Forbes, Alexander Kist, Tessa McCredie, Amanda McCubbin and Bill Wade 14. The Connected University: Connectedness learning across a lifetime Kirsty Kitto, Julieanne Cutrupi, Mark Philips, Gabrielle Gardiner, Moein Ghodrati and Simon Buckingham Shum 15. Future Connections: Implications for connectedness strategy, pedagogy and capability in Higher Education Ruth Bridgstock and Neil Tippett Index

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Book SynopsisWhat role can the university play in the broader community or society in which it is embedded? Must it remain segregated in the halls of science and knowledge, which tower above the community? This book examines the growing number of questions and concerns around university-community relations by exploring widely accepted theories and practices and placing them under new light. From a shared point of agreement that the university is an institution which should move beyond the production of higher knowledge for power elites, the contributors provide critical reflections and reports on efforts to bring about change in the canonic discourse or power-biased attitudes in universities throughout the Northern Hemisphere and Australia. The central message is that the strengthening of direct relations between universities and communities is vital to the construction of social capital and to the opening of universities to society. These are processes to be advanced on both local and international levels, as they involve democratizing rather than corporatizing, extending the reach of our educational process, sharing knowledge, resources, and expertise and reinforcing community decision-making and problem-solving capacity. How these processes of change develop and unfold within a number of universities in a wide range of countries is the story told in this book. This book will appeal to a wide readership, from students and community activists looking to make education meaningful and cooperative, to educational policy makers, members of the professoriate, and academic administrators, seeking to sustain withering institutions and provide vision for new program developments. Contributors include: M.A. Almiron, N. Bibu, J. Blanco Lopez, R. Buber, D. Campbell, M.J. Casa-Nova, G. Csepeli, A. de Pree, A. Feinsod, G. Franger, N. Georgeou, B. Haas, Z. Haberman, G. Hegyesi, S. Herran, E. Ivanova, A. Kövér, M. Lisetchi, R.A. Lohmann, S. Mackerle-Bixa, M. Meyer, J.P. Murray, D. Pendleton, D. Perry, P. Rameder, M. Rawsthorne, B. Sporn, K. Talyigás, C. WinkleTrade Review'Ágnes Kövér and Gaby Franger's University and Society provides a timely values-based approach to understanding the evolving relationships between universities and society. A must-read for all of interested in community based research, community university engagement and knowledge democracy.' --Budd L. Hall, University of Victoria, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introductory Thoughts Ágnes Kövér and Gaby Franger Part I. Challenging Academia 1. Universities “Inside” the World: Multiscale Engagement Levels Maria José Casa-Nova 2. Leaving the Ivory Tower: Universities’ Third Mission and the Quest for Legitimacy Michael Meyer and Barbara Sporn 3. University Student Volunteering for Development. A Critical Approach Nichole Georgeou and Benjamin Haas 4. Sentipensante: Feeling-Thinking-Pedagogy. Community-Based Research and Teaching Gaby Franger Part II University as Agent of Dialogue 5. Dialogue and Deliberation in a Quiet Place Roger A. Lohmann 6. Acting Together - Means of Creative Transformation of Social Conflict György Csepeli 7. Universities - Ngos Interaction in Romania. A Bridge Too Far Away? Nicolae Bibu and Mihai Lisetchi 8. Are We Welcome? Building Trust Through Community Based Research Margot Rawsthorne and Alison De Pree Part III Service Learning and Service Provision 9. Clinical Legal Education: From Loyalty to Power to Loyalty to Society Ágnes Kövér 10. Volunteering@Wu: Implementing Community Service Learning in Austria Renate Buber, Ekaterina Ivanova, Stefanie Mackerle-Bixa, Michael Meyer and Paul Rameder 11. The Community Semester: Enhancing Town and Gown Relations in a Medium-Size City John Murray 12. University of the Third Age Gábor Hegyesi and Katalin Talyigás Part IV Working Within and for Community 13. Shifting Roles for Campus-Building in University-Community Relationships Curt Winkle and David Perry 14. University Residence Flora Tristán: A Social Project of Experiences That Breaks Down Walls Juan Blanco López, M. Ana Almirón, Alfonso Blázquez, Angela Fernández, Maria Del Carmen Maguilla and Silvia De La Herrán 15. The University as Community Developer David Campbell and Dennis Pendleton 16. University and Community: Jewish Tradition and Social Justice Zoltán Háberman 17. Crossroads Repertory Theatre: A Model of a University-Based Theater Arthur Feinsod Index

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Book SynopsisGathering unique and thoughtful contributions from leading international scholars, this timely Research Handbook offers diverse perspectives on university rankings twenty years after the first global rankings emerged. It presents an in-depth analysis that reflects the current state of research on rankings, their influence and impact.The Research Handbook explores how rankings and their impacts can be theorized and conceptualized, as well as the methodological tensions that rankings generate. It further examines how rankings have affected institutional behaviours and interacted with the quality agenda in higher education, examining what rankings mean for equity, teaching and learning, and students. Chapters also analyse how rankings interact with and accentuate the geopolitics of higher education, looking ahead to emergent policy issues and responses to rankings.Higher education researchers, policy and decision makers as well as rankings followers will find the critical insights into globalisation and geopolitics, quality assurance, international comparability and assessment, and student outcomes and learning in this Research Handbook interesting. It will also be a useful read for higher education and university leaders and managers wanting a better understanding of rankings and their usefulness and challenges.Trade Review‘The authors give a comprehensive review and analysis of the impact of global university rankings since their establishment in 2003.’ -- Hester Klopper, Daily Maverick South Africa‘This book is a must-have for higher education policymakers, administrators, and researchers who are directly involved in all aspects of university performance.’ -- Ruth A Pagell, Emory University‘The Research Handbook on University Rankings contains informative studies introducing theoretical frameworks, methodological tensions, influences and impacts that university global rankings have brought into higher education systems and individual institutions in the context of globalization and internationalization. Looking back over 20 years, the monograph consisting 37 chapters in six themes extensively analyses related ranking issues in the past as well as explores the new modes and imaginaries for future development.’ -- Angela Yung Chi Hou, International Journal of Chinese Education‘The Research Handbook on University Rankings offers a highly useful and wide-ranging look at the influential role of global rankings, including a frank assessment of the good, the bad and the ugly. National case studies in particular give the reader an understanding of the global drive for metrics and standardized evaluations of university performance, and the actual impact on funding, policies and the behaviors of individual institutions. What is the future of the proliferation of ranking enterprises? The chapters seem to indicate that they will live on as powerful consumer guides for prospective students in the post-COVID era of global talent mobility, but perhaps are waning as an instigator of government policies.’ -- John Aubrey Douglass, University of California, Berkeley, US‘An enlightening Handbook on everything you always wanted to know about rankings but could not find an answer to: highly reflexive contributions on rankings themselves; challenging analysis of their impact on globalizing higher education and science and on national and institutional policies in different country settings; diving into the business of rankers and publishers; case studies of universities seeking for improved ranks. . . All facets of rankings are scrutinized.’ -- Christine Musselin, CNRS and Sciences Po, France‘The Research Handbook on University Rankings offers a highly useful and wide ranging look at the influential role of global rankings, including a frank assessment of the good, the bad and the ugly. National case studies in particular give the reader an understanding of the global drive for metrics and standardized evaluations of university performance, and the actual impact on funding, policies and the behaviors of individual institutions. What is the future of the proliferation of ranking enterprises? The chapters seem to indicate that they will live on as powerful consumer guides for prospective students in the post-COVID era of global talent mobility, but perhaps are waning as an instigator of government policies.’ -- John Aubrey Douglass, UC Berkeley, US‘With 20 major university rankings, and counting, we badly need better to understand this trend which nearly everyone simultaneously loves and hates. This Research Handbook is a major contribution to that understanding, putting rankings for the first time in their proper context, theoretically and in terms of policy.’ -- Peter Scott, UCL Institute of Education, UK‘If you read only one book about the “whys”, the “hows” and the “impacts” of higher education rankings, this volume is it. Taking both a historical and an international perspective on this global phenomenon, this collection of articles offers expert views on the changes rankings have brought to the world of higher education locally, globally and in terms of each university mission, as well as an analysis of the methodological and political issues rankings raise. A comprehensive reflection on rankings – now a permanent fixture in the higher education policy landscape – well worth reading.’ -- Eva Egron-Polak, Former Secretary General, Senior Fellow, International Association of UniversitiesTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: reflections on rankings xxiii Philip G. Altbach 1 Introduction: putting rankings in context ‒ looking back, looking forward 1 Ellen Hazelkorn and Georgiana Mihut PART I CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL RANKINGS 2 The reality underneath the rankings: trends in global science 19 Simon Marginson 3 How do we know what we know? Empirical methodologies for studying college rankings 38 Jeongeun Kim and Michael Bastedo 4 Rankings and global knowledge governance 54 Tero Erkkilä and Ossi Piironen 5 Theorizing university rankings by comparison: systematic and historical analogies with arts and sports 67 Jelena Brankovic, Leopold Ringel and Tobias Werron 6 Researching and understanding the influence of rankings on higher education institutions: logics, methodologies and conceptualisations 80 William Locke 7 Benchmarking and zeitgeist: university ranking in post-turbo-globalized neoliberalism (Post-TGNL) 93 Hans Peter Hertig PART II METHODOLOGICAL TENSIONS 8 Multidimensional taxonomy of university rankings 106 Enrique Orduña-Malea and Carmen Perez-Esparrells 9 What do global rankings try to measure? Global university ranking methodologies since 2003 127 Richard Holmes 10 Rankings and internationalization: an unfortunate alliance 137 Gerardo L. Blanco, Laura E. Rumbley and Hans de Wit 11 Gender equality: a neglected or rhetorical dimension of rankings in higher education? 150 Pat O’Connor 12 University rankings and the third mission of higher education 163 Robert Kelchen 13 How future-proof are world university rankings? The case of the Most Innovative Universities ranking 171 Robert Tijssen PART III INSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND THE QUALITY AGENDA 14 Quality assurance and rankings: some European lessons 185 Andrée Sursock 15 Higher education system rankings and benchmarking 197 Cláudia S. Sarrico and Ana Godonoga 16 Institutional responses to university rankings: a tale of adaptation and cognitive framing 210 Andrea Bonaccorsi, Paola Belingheri, Brigida Blasi and Sandra Romagnosi 17 Reimaging university identities through rankings in Japan: the transformation of national policies and university behaviours in the broader East Asian context 231 Akiyoshi Yonezawa 18 Striving for excellence in the age of rankings: insights from two leading research universities in Latin America 247 Andrés Bernasconi and Marcelo Knobel 19 Conflating perception and purpose: the University of Louisville and the prominence challenge 262 Tara K. Ising and James D. Breslin 20 Are university rankings still important? Perspectives from Greater China 278 William Yat Wai Lo and Shuiyun Liu PART IV EQUITY, TEACHING AND STUDENT CHOICE 21 The implications of rankings for equity in higher education 295 Laura W. Perna, Jeremy Wright-Kim and Julia Brickfield 22 University rankings and students’ information needs: what is the relation? 307 Jens Jungblut, Bjørn Stensaker and Martina Vukasovic 23 Does teaching count? The relationship between US News & World Report faculty resource measures and students’ experiences with faculty 320 John Zilvinskis, Louis M. Rocconi and Alexander C. McCormick 24 Teaching and learning in university rankings: a critical review and reassessment 329 Kyle T. Fassett and Alexander C. McCormick 25 Learning gain in excellence frameworks and rankings 340 Camille Kandiko Howson PART V (GEO)POLITICS OF HIGHER EDUCATION 26 Ideas for theorizing the geopolitics of higher education in the global rankings era 354 Brendan Cantwell 27 A critical review of the history, achievements and impacts of China’s quest for world-class university status 366 Ka Ho Mok and Yuyang Kang 28 The geopolitics of university rankings: not all regions and university networks stand equal 382 Angel Calderon 29 The treacherous adventure of ranking African universities 399 Damtew Teferra 30 Reputational risk rating and the commercialisation of higher education 412 Hamish Coates, Lu Liu and Xi Hong 31 University rankings and governance by metrics and algorithms 424 George Chen and Leslie Chan 32 The business of university rankings: the case of Times Higher Education 442 Miguel Antonio Lim PART VI POLICY ISSUES AND RESPONSES 33 Do rankings promote academic excellence? World-class universities in perspective 453 Jamil Salmi 34 Why research matters: Latin America facing world-class universities and rankings 471 Alma Maldonado-Maldonado and Christian Ivan Cortes Velasco 35 Football lessons for universities or how to go beyond ranking 484 Sebastian Stride, Yoran Beldengrün, Ruggero Cortini, Annamaria Donnarumma, Nicolau Duran, Xavi Gimenez, Matthias Heuser, Francesco Massucci, Sabine Plaud, Guillem Rull and Sonia Veiga 36 Are global rankings compatible with higher education policy? 507 Thomas Zacharewicz, Koen Jonkers and Ellen Hazelkorn 37 Global rankings and the dynamics of global convergence and local divergence in higher education 522 Dirk Van Damme Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This far-reaching Research Agenda highlights the main features of entrepreneurial university research over the two decades since the concept was first introduced, and examines how technological, environmental and social changes will affect future research questions and themes. It revisits existing research that tends to adopt either an idealised or a sceptical view of the entrepreneurial university, arguing for further investigation and the development of bridges between these two strands.Offering insights into both mainstream and critical approaches, top international scholars discuss a wide range of studies from various analytical and methodological perspectives. Contributions envision the future development of the 'alternative entrepreneurial university', creating space for more localised and contextualised institutions that can be both responsive to the needs of their societies and proactive in shaping them.Academics and practitioners interested in the entrepreneurial university will find this forward-looking Research Agenda to be crucial reading. It will also be beneficial for PhD researchers in framing key directions and questions for future research.Trade Review'From an academic point of view, entrepreneurial universities are still an emergent area in the field of entrepreneurship. This book, written by a group of scholars at the leading edge on this topic, is offering new and fresh research perspectives. I found interest in every piece of research; however, I would recommend paying greater attention to those chapters taking a critical stance toward the phenomenon and those discussing the challenges and opportunities entrepreneurial universities might meet in the digital era.' -- Alain Fayolle, University of Cagliari, Italy'This important new book not only makes crystal clear the key role played by an entrepreneurial university in driving economic performance, it also paves a pioneering path directing research and thought leadership on how best to create, develop and sustain an entrepreneurial university. The book transcends both disciplinary boundaries and conventional thinking in forging an important new research area.' -- David B. Audretsch, Indiana University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: navigating the frontiers of entrepreneurial university research 1 Ulla Hytti 2 An alternative entrepreneurial university? 7 Karin Berglund, Anna Alexandersson, Marina Jogmark and Malin Tillmar 3 The societally entrepreneurial university 29 Karen Verduijn and Ida Sabelis 4 Entrepreneurial universities in post-Soviet countries 43 Rita Kaša, Mari Elken and Anders Paalzow 5 Orchestrating affect at the entrepreneurial university 67 Saija Katila, Ari Kuismin, Pikka-Maaria Laine and Anu Valtonen 6 Agent or principal? A discursive and rhetorical approach to changing stakeholder relations in the entrepreneurial university 85 Miira Niska and Kari Mikko Vesala 7 Entrepreneurial university business models: core drivers, challenges and consequences 103 James A. Cunningham and Kristel Miller 8 Calling for student engagement in an entrepreneurial university 129 Katja Lahikainen, Kati Peltonen, Lenita Hietanen and Elena Oikkonen 9 The entrepreneurial university in the digital era: looking into teaching challenges and new higher education trends 143 Maribel Guerrero and David Urbano 10 Sources of science and power: emerging organizational forms and professions in the entrepreneurial university 169 Jarrett B. Warshaw 11 Between academia and business: research agenda for acapreneurship 189 Andrew Creed, Jarna Heinonen and Ambika Zutshi 12 Relationship development patterns of university-based start-ups 207 Lise Aaboen, Anna Dubois and Leena Aarikka-Stenroos 13 Research spin-offs and their role within the entrepreneurial university in the digital age: a framework for future research from Italian case studies 229 Elisa Salvador, Raffaella Manzini, Andrea Urbinati, Gloria Puliga and Valentina Lazzarotti Index 251

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Book SynopsisThere is often little guidance available on how to teach in universities, despite there being increasing pressure to raise teaching standards, as well as no official requirement for academics to have any specific teaching qualification in many countries. This invaluable book comprehensively addresses this issue, providing an overview of teaching in a business school that covers all stages of student learning. This book demonstrates various ways to engage students and offers techniques to enhance teaching practice, focusing on particular challenges such as large group teaching, increasing attendance and engagement, and successful professional development. All the contributors have current experience of teaching in a business school, allowing them to offer honest, personal assessments of what is effective in practice. Chapters address specific topics such as technology enhanced learning, while useful 'thoughts' provide creative and innovative suggestions on improving participation and outcomes. Learning and Teaching in Higher Education will be an important resource for those teaching in a business school setting, as well as having significant value to anyone teaching in higher education more generally.Trade Review'This is an intensely practical and practice-inspired book aimed at the new, and not so new, HE instructor. Illustrations, thoughts, reflections and tips for the practitioner are generously provided throughout. Old and new tools and techniques, from storytelling to the virtual classroom, are brought to life; challenging and encouraging the reader to broaden their practice.' --Ann Davis, University of Sydney, Australia'This conversational collection offers an array of practical tips, personal anecdotes and examples for teaching in business and management contexts. Lecturers who are new to teaching will no doubt find it very useful to get started, while more experienced colleagues may want to dip into it for fresh ideas.' --Alison James, University of Winchester, UK'This is an essential resource for anyone teaching and supporting learning in a business school. The variety and richness of practical approaches, pedagogic reflections and initiatives presented in the context of business and management education is simply outstanding. Well done for this must-read collection of inspirational ideas and tried and tested approaches that will inspire us all to get more creative in the business classroom.' --Sally Everett, King's College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Foreword Introduction 1. Theorising about learning and knowing Keith Schofield Engaging Students 2. How to engage students Alison Lindon and Michael Butler 3. Icebreakers for business school students Ilias Basioudis Thought 1 Alison Lindon and Michael Butler 4. Trumping Truancy: Maintaining student attendance and engagement Gayatri Patel Thought 2 Kathy Daniels 5. Helping our students to think critically Elaine Clarke Thought 3 Daniel Cash 6. How to introduce and integrate creativity Bimal Arora 7. How to invigorate group presentations Matthew Olczak Thought 4 Gayatri Patel 8. Bridging the Gap: Writing in Higher Education Daniel Cash Enhancing Teaching Practice 9. Getting the most out of large group teaching Caroline Elliott and Jon Guest 10. Storytelling as a technique for teaching Sudeshna Bhattacharya Thought 5 Geetha Ravishankar 11. Experiential learning: Use of business simulations Clive Kerridge Thought 6 Kris Lines 12. How to do a confident presentation Chris Jones Thought 7 Caroline Elliott and Jon Guest 13. Making teaching relevant for the business student Kathy Daniels 14. Problem based learning Chris Owen Thought 8 Alison McPherson 15. Teaching students struggling because English is not their first language Pieter Koornhof 16. How to teach students from a range of different countries Uche Ogwude Thought 9 Matthew Olczak 17. Teaching small groups Alison McPherson Technology Enhanced Learning 18. Technology enhanced learning activities and student participation Bahar Kazmi and Umair Riaz Thought 10 Elaine Clarke 19. Cultivating students’ digital literacy Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Oscar Rodríguez-Espindola, Ahmad Beltagui and Pavel Albores-Barajas Thought 11 Uche Ogwude 20. Designing and teaching an online module Jon Taylor, Richard Terry and Matt Davies Thought 12 Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Oscar Rodríguez-Espindola, Ahmad Beltagui and Pavel Albores-Barajas 21. Successful teaching in virtual classrooms Richard Terry, Jon Taylor and Matt Davies Thought 13 Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Oscar Rodríguez-Espindola, Ahmad Beltagui and Pavel Albores-Barajas 22. Managing online learning Nicholas Theodorakopoulos, Teaching Content 23. The use of short in-class games Jon Guest, Maria Kozlovskaya and Matthew Olczak 24. Teaching maths to non-mathematical standards Geetha Ravishankar Thought 14 Pieter Koornhof 25. How to embed CSR in teaching Muhammed Al Mahameed and Umair Riaz 26. Teaching Law to business students Adam Shaw-Mellors and Pieter Koornhof Thought 15 Adam Shaw-Mellors 27. Practitioner module partnership and sponsorship Keith Glanfield Assessment 28. Demystifying the assessment criteria Gayatri Patel Thought 16 Bimal Arora 29. Using posters in academic assessments Kris Lines 30. Writing effective multiple choice questions Simon Finley Thought 17 Kathy Daniels 31. Peer assessment Elaine Clarke 32. Providing effective feedback Jon Guest Index

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Book SynopsisThe path of a doctoral student can feel challenging and isolating. This guide provides doctoral students with key ideas and support to kick-start a doctoral journey, inspire progress and complete their thesis or dissertation. Featuring observations from experienced supervisors, as well as the reflections of current and recent postgraduate researchers, this intimate and entertaining book offers vital insights into the critical moments in any doctoral experience. Bringing together the voices of doctoral supervisors and candidates past and present from around the globe, How to Keep your Doctorate on Track will be a trusted companion for any PhD, DBA or EdD student. Supervisors and those offering support and guidance to doctoral candidates will also glean valuable insight into fresh approaches and their own practice. Contributors include: A. Alecsandru, F. Archontoulis, C. Atkinson, A. Byrnes-Johnstone, J. Callahan, A. Casey, R. Cole, O.S. Crocco, M. Cseh, Z. Djebali, G. Dobson, J. Donaghey, D.C. Duke, U. Furnier, V.O. Gekara, T. Gray, T.W. Greer, A. Hallin, B. Harney, G. Henry, C. Hughes, P. Jordan, M. Knox, S.F. Lambert, A. Lee, Q.Y. Lee, A. Lobo, R. Markey, N.S. Mauthner, E. McDonald, L. McKerr, D. Nickson, K. Nimon, E. Partlow, H. Prescott, N. Reynolds, S. Riaz, A. Robertson, J. Robinson, K. Rosenbusch, G. Ryan, J.J. Saunders, M. Shirmohammadi, M.K. Tran, A. Trif, M. Valverde, P. Watson Black, V. Webster, R. Whiting, C.F. WrightTrade Review‘. . . anyone pursuing graduate work should have plenty of support and at least one practical guide, like How to Keep Your Doctorate On Track. While the primary audience is obviously those considering or undertaking doctoral work, one key secondary audience is supervisors themselves. Each section pairs the perspectives of supervisors/professors with those of students. As the editors themselves point out, the student perspectives can be eye-opening. Perhaps if more supervisors paused to reflect on the varied experiences presented in this text, they could help mitigate some of the anxiety and depression felt by students under their tutelage.’ -- Kelly A Harrison, Technical CommunicationTable of ContentsContents: 1 What we wish we had known: lessons learned to keep your doctorate on track 1 Rebecca Loudoun, Emily A. Morrison, Mark N.K. Saunders and Keith Townsend PART I GETTING INTO IT 2 Choosing your topic: a supervisor perspective 14 Jimmy Donaghey 3 ‘Begin at the beginning’: identifying ideas for a PhD 22 Graeme Dobson 4 ‘I want to do it because I want to do it’: boarding flight PhD 31 Jemma J. Saunders 5 Asking “the” question 34 Emily McDonald 6 Whose doctorate is it anyway? How students and supervisors can work well together 36 Carol Atkinson and Keith Townsend 7 When an orchestra misses its harmony (or how I learnt to work with my supervisors) 43 Mai Khanh Tran 8 ‘How much time do I get?????’ 52 Peter J. Jordan 9 Views from the top and views of the valley: the paths of dissertation literature reviews 55 Maria Cseh 10 Critically reviewing the literature: the ghosts of literature present, past and future 65 Linzi McKerr 11 Reading academic papers: visiting and re-visiting old friends 74 Jennifer Robinson 12 Research philosophies and why they matter 76 Natasha S. Mauthner 13 Getting your research philosophy clear 87 Rosanna Cole 14 Changing philosophy (aka the only PhD is a finished PhD) 95 Brian Harney 15 Designing and conducting a quantitative study: lessons learned from work, home, and school 97 Kim Nimon 16 Strategies for analysing qualitative data: how to get started with making sense of all that material you’ve collected 107 Anette Hallin 17 Discovering statistics and developing a quantitative research design 117 Ursula Furnier 18 Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, how am I making sense of it all? 125 Merrel Knox 19 Too much of a good thing – tradeoffs between training and completion? 135 Keith Townsend PART II GETTING ON WITH IT 20 Critical feedback: transforming criticisms into indispensable insights 142 Emily A. Morrison 21 ‘They think I’m stupid’: dealing with supervisor feedback 159 Amanda Lee 22 No book or resource has all the answers 167 Rebecca Loudoun 23 “Ok Google … since when did you join my supervision team?” 169 Adam Robertson 24 Embracing research ethics: from cognitive walk-through to reflexive journey 171 Rebecca Whiting 25 Gaining ethical approval 182 Nora Pillard Reynolds 26 But I am just going home: research ethics and student safety 191 Safa Riaz 27 Organizational governance: the final hurdles for research approval 193 Amy N.B. Johnston 28 Wearing skirts and writing like a woman: a winding road to gaining access to research 200 Ana Alecsandru 29 Gaining access to apparently easy informants 210 Mireia Valverde 30 Letters from a doctoral researcher to a data collection advice column … and the responses 213 Sharon F. Lambert 31 Addressing power differentials and managing egos: how to collect reliable qualitative data when researching ‘elites’ 228 Chris F. Wright 32 Time is waiting in the wings 238 Mark N.K. Saunders 33 Navigating the supervisory relationship: the case of the disappearing supervisors 248 Vicki Webster 34 Managing time and maintaining focus 256 Colin Hughes 35 Tightrope walking: balancing the dynamic tensions of the doctoral process 264 Andrea Casey 36 Keeping your life on track: living one spoon at a time 272 Emma Partlow 37 Opportunities and challenges of studying abroad 281 Aurora Trif 38 Keeping life and career on track as a non-traditional doctorate student 283 Vicki Webster 39 Finders, keepers, losers, weepers! A doctoral candidate’s reality of changing thesis advisors 285 Polly Watson Black 40 To leave or not to leave your Alma Mater 293 Raymond Markey 41 My journey 303 Gerard Ryan PART III GETTING IT FINISHED AND MOVING ON 42 Eat, sleep, redraft, repeat 308 Ana Lobo 43 Challenges in writing up qualitative findings 316 Victor Oyaro Gekara 44 The power to write 323 Melika Shirmohammadi 45 Writing your thesis quickly and well 325 Tara Gray 46 Rewriting and overcoming writer’s block 336 Grace Henry 47 Overcoming writer’s block (and submission anxiety) 344 Fiona Archontoulis 48 The final mile: avoiding and overcoming viva trip-ups 345 Dawn C. Duke 49 My viva voce examination: a rollercoaster! 356 Zeineb Djebali 50 Let me defend myself (or at least my thesis) 365 Qian Yi Lee 51 Networking with academics to solve your PhD puzzle 367 Adam Robertson 52 Are conferences worth attending as a graduate student? Reflections and lessons from a former graduate student 377 Tomika W. Greer 53 A tale of three dissertations: experiences of transforming mentored research into an article 387 Jamie Callahan 54 How can you publish from your dissertation? 398 Katherine Rosenbusch 55 Publishing from your thesis 408 Dennis Nickson 56 Getting the first academic job 410 Oliver S. Crocco 57 Beyond the doctorate: getting your first job 420 Holly Prescott 58 Publications, what publications? 429 Mark N.K. Saunders 59 Balancing act 431 Polly Watson Black Index 433

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Book SynopsisIdentifying academic freedom as a major casualty of rapid and extensive reforms to the governance and practices of academic institutions worldwide, this timely Handbook considers the meaning of academic freedom, the threats it faces, and its relation to rights of critical expression, public accountability and the democratic health of open societies.An international cohort of leading scholars discuss the historical conceptualisations of academic freedom and explore the extent of its reconfiguration by neoliberalism and economic globalisation. Chapters examine the threats posed to academic freedom by interventionist government, economic fundamentalism, political conservatism and extremism. The Handbook finds that these threats endanger the intellectual ambitions at the core of academic freedom: contesting established ‘truth’ and holding power to account.Examining a matter of urgent social and political importance which is crucial to the future of democracy and intellectual autonomy, this Handbook is an invigorating read for students and scholars researching academic freedom, free speech and democratic governance in higher education institutions.Trade Review‘The Handbook on Academic Freedom paints an extremely disturbing picture of how, globally, academics’ ability to act as critical public intellectuals has been radically undermined by universities’ shift from a collegial to a managerial mode of governance. However, this is not simply a critique of the myriad ways in which academics’ “performance” is now constantly audited and monitored in a way that limits their freedom to perform their proper function, but also a much-needed call to arms.’ -- Julian Petley, Brunel University London, UK‘For three decades academic faculty have struggled within a neo liberal performance economy to maintain control over their work and ground it socially amid corporate universities focused on their own status as an end in itself. Now the spread of authoritarian states, the turn to more conflictual geopolitics and the new securitisation of science and technology pose more treacherous challenges. Much depends on whether academic freedom in its different variations across the world can ride out the storm. The book is an indispensable guide to this fundamental and vital issue.’ -- Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Academic Freedom 1 Richard Watermeyer PART I HISTORIES AND CONCEPTUALISATIONS 1 Academic freedom in the modern British university: a historical perspective 18 Mike Finn 2 Publicness and intellectual work: rethinking academic freedom in the age of impact 37 Mark Murphy 3 Academic freedom as radical freedom 52 Christian Krijnen 4 A symbiotic relationship between academic freedom and liberal democracy: the case of higher education in Turkey 70 Ayla Göl PART II NEOLIBERALISM/MANAGERIALISM 5 Knowledge, meaning and work: threats to academic freedom in the world of research 90 Eva Aladro Vico 6 Institutional autonomy, managerialism and the conditions for academic freedom in Swedish higher education 105 Goran Puaca 7 Academic freedom, institutional autonomy and democracy: the incursions of neoliberalism 125 Mark Olssen 8 Reframing the freedom to teach 146 Bruce Macfarlane PART III CHALLENGING UNEQUAL STRUCTURES 9 A nation reimagined: the suppression of academic freedom in Turkey 160 Tahir Abbas and Anja Zalta 10 Whiteness masquerading as academic freedom 177 Georgina Tuari Stewart 11 Eurocentrism, racism and academic freedom in South Africa 190 Savo Heleta PART IV PERSONAL/POLITICAL REFLECTIONS 12 Toxic times for feminist academic freedom? 206 Carol A. Taylor, Susanne Gannon, Kathryn Scantlebury and Jayne Osgood 13 Academic freedom as experience, relation and capability: a view from Hong Kong 225 Liz Jackson 14 Academic freedom begins at home 242 Nesta Devine PART V STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC FREEDOM 15 Student freedom in contemporary universities: England and Italy compared 252 Lorenzo Cini 16 Academic freedom, students and the decolonial turn in South Africa 269 Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh and Thierry M. Luescher 17 Freedom, fragmentation and student politics: tracing the effects of consumerism in English students’ unions 288 Rille Raaper PART VI NEW CONFIGURATIONS 18 The end of academic freedom: two displacements and new ends for it 305 Ronald Barnett 19 Academic freedom and the Israeli‒Palestinian conflict 319 Cary Nelson 20 Academic freedom and extramural expression in the US 336 Henry Reichman PART VII A CALL TO ARMS 21 Campaigning for academic freedom 356 Dennis Hayes Index

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Book SynopsisSince the onset of the UK's Research Excellence Framework in 2014, the environment for academic research has changed dramatically. Competitive Accountability in Academic Life goes behind the scenes of the 'impact' policy agenda for higher education research and interrogates the effects of the new framework on academic research. Richard Watermeyer dissects how a new requirement to evidence the economic and societal impact of research has created a culture of intense competitiveness in UK universities. Through the eyes of both those responsible for the REF and those working under its gaze, the author locates the gross deceit spawned from a culture of competitive accountability in UK universities. This challenging book reconceptualises the public role of researchers, posing a new effort to progress the neoliberal malaise by signposting peripheral zones of participation - and non-participation - as viable intellectual alternatives to the university. Both groundbreaking and provocative, Watermeyer's book is critical reading for academics working not just in the UK, but also internationally. The author's crucial insight into modern higher education will also prove indispensable to higher education policy makers looking to innovate and refine education policy, and to university administrators overseeing performance management systems.Trade Review‘Watermeyer’s book encourages academics all over the world to reflect on both the potentials and down-sides of these accountability systems. The underlying analysis is provocative, as it fundamentally questions taken for granted ways in which research is assessed, not only in the UK but also in many other Western countries. Scholars in public policy, education policy and public management and accounting can benefit from taking notice of this book.’ -- Jan van Helden, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management‘Where this book fares really well in comparison with others is its focus on the complicity and hypocrisy among academics themselves, thereby making the competitive practices even more entrenched. The latter is of particular importance because while change is necessary, it is only possible if the problem is appreciated in full.’ -- Ignas Kalpokas, LSE Review of Books'Competitive Accountability in Academic Life is a challenging text that will appeal to academics and research scientists across different discipline areas. Drawing on UK REF-impact empirical data over a three-year period, a comprehensive sociological analysis accounts for how academics' public citizenship has been regulated, controlled and hollowed out. By showing how political, economic and cultural dimensions of intellectual life is influenced and informed by competitive accountability, Richard Watermeyer paints a compelling picture of what academics ''have (albeit unwittingly) allowed themselves to be used for''. This thought-provoking text provides a strong rationale for reconceptualizing the public worth of academics and reasserting their social value.' --Richard Winter, The Australian National University, Australia'Competitive Accountability in Academic Life is an ambitious book charting the dispiriting, corrosive effects of contemporary academic managerialism. An impressive intellectual tour de force, Watermeyer awakens new possibilities for engaged and impactful academic practices. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in understanding and repairing today's toxic university governance.' --Paul Benneworth, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NorwayThis witty, subversive and well-informed book provides an essential guide to the effects of performance measurement in universities. Predictable consequences include growing job insecurity, more stressful working conditions and declining quality of academic life. Even more serious is the loss of incentive for independent original thought and the stifling of debate on controversial social and political issues.' --Mark Casson, University of Reading, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. The noose of competitive accountability 2. Policy permutations and the elusiveness of a fair system of accountability 3. A shortfall of resistance: peripheral yet powerful zones of (non)participation 4. Producing competitive accountability 5. Evaluating competitive accountability 6. Recognising competitive accountability 7. Declaiming competitive accountability: pay and pensions 8. Paradoxes of competitive accountability References Index

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Book SynopsisEveryone wants their research to be read and to be relevant. This exciting new guide presents a broad range of ideas for enhancing research impact and relevance. Bringing together researchers from all stages of academic life, it offers a far-reaching discussion of strategies to optimise relevancy in the modern research environment. This book is crucial reading for advanced masters students, doctoral students and researchers in the social sciences wishing to grow the relevance of their research beyond academia. Senior researchers and educators offering doctoral courses will also benefit from its insight into the development of a generation of young researchers in the contemporary academic environment. Contributors include: T. Alfahaid, A. Aljarodi, C. Alvarez, S. Aparicio, E. Breit, A. Buhrandt, D. de Castro Leal, K. Ettl, S. Feldermann, I. Haase, J. Janisch, P. Köhn, T. Lopez, A. Löscher, A. Müller, M. Paschke, P.J. Ruf, J. Schnittker, C. Soost, D. Urbano, C. Weigel, F. WelterTrade Review'This book may become the beginning of a new movement as it encourages new researchers to examine the relevance of their work beyond the world of academic publications. As community engagement becomes an ever greater aspect of the work of universities, How to Make your Doctoral Research Relevant should become prescribed reading for any new researcher who wants their work to have meaningful impact for multiple stakeholders.' --Thomas M. Cooney, Technological University Dublin, Ireland'This is a very timely book addressing a pressing question of impact and relevance in research. Most importantly the book not only suggests relevance and impact to matter but embraces a challenge how to promote and sustain change in academia. This is done by inviting PhD students and junior researchers to discuss ways to identify relevant questions to be studied with relevant approaches and how to transfer our research results for the society. As such, the book actively aims at resisting ''publication frenzy'' and offers a way out to the more inspiring future in research!' --Ulla Hytti, University of Turku, Finland'This is a different book - unique regarding both the collection of contributors and their combined messages. Together the authors stress the importance of connecting their intellectual curiosity to value creation - for themselves, their academic institutions, and explicitly for society. By reflecting on their group discussions and then sometimes quite personal introspection, they promote the continued need for questioning assumptions and applying novel research methodologies. Overall, Welter and Urbano have worked with their early career contributors to craft an exploration of impact and relevance of academic research that makes me optimistic for the future.' --Patricia Greene, Babson College, USTable of ContentsContents: WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT THE RELEVANCE AND IMPACT OF OUR RESEARCH? 1 Introducing the book: the what, why and how of relevance and impact 2 Friederike Welter, David Urbano, Turki Alfahaid, Abdullah Aljarodi, Elsa Breit, Andreas Buhrandt, Débora de Castro Leal, Sina Feldermann, Jonas Janisch, Philipp Köhn, Tatiana Lopez, Anne Löscher, Anna Müller, Max Paschke, Philipp Julian Ruf, Julia Schnittker and Christine Weigel HOW TO IDENTIFY RELEVANCE IN YOUR RESEARCH TOPIC: NEW DIRECTIONS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH 2 Bring your background up and keep the context in mind to choose the right conversation 11 Sebastian Aparicio 3 Irrelevant or relevant: key learnings from an early career researcher for other early career researchers 13 Jonas Janisch 4 Schrödinger’s family firm: on the German legislator implicitly defining the family business and how he attempts to protect it 23 Andreas Buhrandt 5 Can you spare a dollar, please? Foreign exchange shortage as a persistent challenge to economic development 34 Anne Löscher HOW TO MAKE YOUR RESEARCH APPROACHES RELEVANT 6 Find your conversation and join it 48 Claudia Alvarez 7 The real deal: a researcher among practitioners 50 Inga Haase 8 From practice to practice: an example for the relevance of research (projects) and its implications 61 Julia Schnittker 9 Different approaches of context in quantitative entrepreneurship research 69 Abdullah Aljarodi, Tatiana Lopez and Turki Alfahaid 10 How to study context in quantitative entrepreneurship research 80 Christine Weigel and Christian Soost 11 Reflections of an activist-academic 92 Débora de Castro Leal HOW TO TRANSFER YOUR RESEARCH RESULTS 12 Be passionate about your research topics and share this passion 104 Kerstin Ettl 13 The life cycle of academia and its impact on early career researchers’ publishing behaviour 106 Philipp Julian Ruf and Philipp Köhn 14 Living under the restrictions of a ‘publish or perish’ culture 119 Christine Weigel and Anna Müller 15 Fighting for attention: early career researchers and the online scientific community 130 Inga Haase and Anna Müller 16 The value of business events for engaged scholarship 142 Elsa Breit 17 Bridging the gap: contextualization as a lighthouse 154 Max Paschke AFTERTHOUGHTS 18 An ongoing journey: developing relevance and impact dimensions of entrepreneurship research 167 Tatiana Lopez, Anna Müller and Max Paschke Index 174

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Book SynopsisAccessible in its style, yet comprehensive in content, this groundbreaking book provides a wealth of advice on how academics can enhance their research practices. It also highlights the fundamental role of research leaders and how their support can prove invaluable to academics in improving their research methodology. Don Webber expertly compiles responses from different research environments and practices across a range of universities, succinctly summarising those that achieve better quality research output. Highlighting collective practices as well as individual ones, he further illustrates the responsibilities placed upon academics for their own research alongside those of their peers and how these can have considerable mutual benefits. This invigorating read will be an excellent resource for new academics who wish to learn best practice and experienced academics who may have lost their way and are wanting to get their research back on track. Research leaders who wish to have a high performing department will find this book insightful in gaining ideas on how to enable their colleagues to achieve their full potential.Trade Review‘How to Enhance Your Research: 100 Practical Tips for Academics is an extraordinary and exceptionally well organized and presented combination of instructional guide and How to manual for doing original research on any subject. Thoroughly “user friendly” and an ideal textbook for research skills curriculums, the book a unique and unreservedly addition to personal, professional, community college, and university library Education and Sociology collections.’ -- John Taylor, Midwest Book Review‘Academia, while immensely rewarding, can be a pretty tough gig, particularly for junior researchers. In this book, Professor Webber, based on years of experience across countries and institutions, provides a very accessible set of tips to make the academic journey less daunting and more enjoyable. A delightfully free-flowing read, with many nuggets of quality information, for new and established academics as well as research leaders – a book that could easily become a staple on an academic’s bookshelf.’ -- Gail Pacheco, Auckland University of Technology, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: How Can We Enhance Research? Part I The Essentials Part II You Find Inspiration When You Least Expect It Part III Broaden Your Methodological Toolbox Part IV Extra Training Expands Minds Part V Colleagues and Collaborations Part VI Conferences Part VII A Journal Loop: Reviewing and Submitting Papers Part VIII Teaching Part IX Academic Research is Related to Externally Funded Work Part X Impact Index

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Book SynopsisEnormous changes are affecting African production agriculture, urbanization, and food consumption patterns, requiring new approaches to training and knowledge generation and dissemination to achieve food security. Many agricultural universities and other tertiary agricultural education (TAE) organizations have been slow to respond, hindered by inadequate staffing and facilities and growing competition for funds. However, some African agricultural universities are transforming themselves and are achieving remarkable success. This book documents successful approaches to remaking TAE in Africa to inspire leaders, both formal and informal, of other TAE organizations. It emphasises adaptive strategies and processes creating an internal culture driven by stakeholder needs and where organizational transformation improves the quality and relevance of teaching, research, and outreach. The chapters cover the role of TAE in agricultural transformation, trends in TAE in Africa, solutions to the rigour-versus-relevance dilemma, curriculum design informed by actual and emerging labour market conditions, innovation and entrepreneurship, TAE quality assurance, and networking among TAE institutions. This book: Emphasizes best practices within Africa rather than theories or models from outside Promotes adaptive organizational learning strategies rather than blueprints Promotes collaboration and networking for cross-learning and leveraging of resources Features practical examples and case studies This book is aimed at academics in Africa and abroad, students of agricultural development, educational and agricultural policy makers in Africa, international development partners, and education sector investors.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction Chapter 1: Agriculture and Tertiary Education within the Context of Global and African Development Goals Part II: Sectoral and Institutional Context Chapter 2: Agricultural Food System Transformation in Africa and Its Implications for Tertiary Agricultural Education Chapter 3: Positioning Tertiary Agricultural Education within a Changing Policy and Institutional Context Chapter 4: Global and African Trends in Tertiary Education Chapter 5: Trends in Tertiary Agricultural Education Capacity in Africa Part III: Pathways of Transformation Chapter 6: Leadership and Change Management to Transform Tertiary Agricultural Education Institutions Chaoter 7: Transformative Curricula and Teaching Practices to Meet Labour-Market Needs in Tertiary Agricultural Education in Africa Chapter 8: Transformative Research and Innovation in Tertiary Agricultural Education in Africa Chapter 9: Transformative Outreach in Tertiary Agricultural Education in Africa Chapter 10: Quality Assurance in Tertiary Agricultural Education in Africa Chapter 11: Gender Concepts and Practices for Transforming Tertiary Agricultural Education in Africa Chapter 12: Entrepreneurship and the Role of Universities in Generating Youth Employment in Africa Chapter 13: Transformative Technical and Vocational Training in Tertiary Agricultural Education in Africa Chapter 14: Network Approaches to Transforming Tertiary Agricultural Education in Africa Chapter 15: A Case Study of Transformation in Four African Universities Chapter 16: Transnational Partnerships for Tertiary Agricultural Education in Africa Part IV: Implementing the Transformation Chapter 17: A Transformation Agenda for Tertiary Agricultural Education in Africa

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Book SynopsisThe pursuit of excellence in business and management doctorates demands a delicate interplay between the capacity to synthesize intricate evidence (the ant hill) while maintaining a panoramic outlook (helicopter view) and crafting theoretical abstractions. Herein lies the challenge—maintaining equilibrium in this duality. Business and Management Doctorates World-Wide explores debates on the design and delivery of doctorates in business and management to support student employability and create impact. The book provides wide ranging international comparisons and reflections on the purpose and innovations in doctoral education offered by business schools today. Expert contributors analyze North and South American models, European doctorates, insights from the Arab World, doctoral provision in Australia and New Zealand, and ASEAN orientations. These global case studies incorporate explanations about the origins of existing systems and current drivers of behaviour, employment prospects for graduates, the opinions of different stake holders about the relevance of the programmes, and future emerging trends. Business and Management Doctorates World-Wide offers detailed comparative analysis of current practices to highlight reasons for commonalities and differences in different parts of the world with suggestions about lessons shared in diverse contexts.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Growth Patterns of Business and Management Doctorates around the World Chapter 2. Recruitment, Selection and Retention in Business and Management Doctorates around the World Chapter 3. The Business School Doctoral Experience Chapter 4. Employability, Career Management and Post-Doctoral Outcomes in Business and Management Chapter 5. Research Environment, Culture, Capacity, Capabilities, and Connectivity

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Book SynopsisMany challenges are faced by under-represented groups in academia. Difficulties during the tenure process, prejudice stemming from affirmative action and higher levels of scrutiny than their colleagues are just a few tribulations experienced by faculty members from minority groups that have gone unnoticed and often ignored.The contributors of Diversity and Triumphs of Navigating the Terrain of Academe share these narratives and tell of how faculty navigate through situations such as microaggressions, racism and sexism. By taking an anecdotal approach, this volume captures the experiences of those who teach at institutions dominated by white males in the United States and abroad. This book is written as a treatise to dismantle the powers of discriminatory incubuses that have haunted institutions of higher learning, one narrative at a time. Some of these institutions are still making history in hiring its first person of color within its departments. Collectively, the contributors' experiences serve as instrumentalities that work together to initiate dialogue among current and future members of the professoriate, making this title an invaluable text for researchers and higher education administrators alike.Trade ReviewThrough seven essays, scholars working in education and other areas at universities in Europe, North America, and Africa describe faculty experiences in universities that are predominantly white. They address campus conversations on race, the experiences of Ghanaian PhD graduates from various universities, dealing with racial microaggressions, designing culturally responsive assessment for higher education institutions, navigating the politics of academia, and navigating obstacles faced in university teaching using critical race theory. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Great Gulf Between Our Yesterday and Our Tomorrow: Swimming Through Muddy Academe Water; Raphael Heaggans Chapter 1. Talk is Cheap: The Prospects and Problems with Campus Conversations on Race; Neysa Figueroa, Seneca Vaught Chapter 2. Navigating through PhD programmes: Experiences of Ghanaian PhD graduates from universities across the globe; Lucy Effeh Attom Chapter 3. Walk Steady, Keep Going: Navigational Moves of Empowerment, Resistance, and Sustenance in the Academy; Ann Lopez Chapter 4. Progressing Culturally Responsive Assessment for Higher Education Institutions; Denise Burns, Martin Brown, Joe O'Hara and Gerry McNamara Chapter 5. Navigating the Politics of the Academe; Njoki Nathani Wane, Zuhra E. Abawi and Zachary Njagi Chapter 6. Negotiating University Teaching in Canada using Critical Race Theory: Having to Continually Prove Oneself in Academia; Andrew Allen Chapter 7. She Don't Belong Here: Silver Lining Amid the Ivory Tower; Eveldora Wheeler

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Book SynopsisTeaching Benefit-Cost Analysis is a unique look at the insights of internationally recognized teachers, researchers and practitioners addressing a difficult and controversial subject. Each chapter presents a self-contained module that includes guidance to additional resources, and many contain class exercises to provide detail and inspiration that extends beyond the scope of standard textbooks.The social evaluation of public investments by governments, international organizations and non-profits is an expanding field that encompasses both new and established areas of social policy. This book expands on the methods and issues central to the study of benefit-cost analysis, with specific topics including risk, societal distribution of impacts, limited versus national effects, the statistical value of a life and more. This book?s focus on classroom engagement makes it a valuable resource for teachers of benefit-cost analysis. Its attention to foundational and advanced concepts will be of interest to undergraduate or Master?s-level students of public policy, economics and related areas, as well as professional economists who apply benefit-cost analysis in their work.Trade Review'As the feasibility of using benefit-cost analysis (BCA) as a practical tool of policy analysis has increased, so too has the need for materials to aid those of us who are called upon to teach BCA. Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis: Tools of the Trade, edited by Scott Farrow, is a distinctive and welcome addition to the collection of such materials.' --On Balance ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface: Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis PART I The Big Picture 1. Decision Rules William K. Bellinger 2. Triangles and All That Arnold C. Harberger 3. Defining the Baseline Charles Griffiths and Chris Dockins 4. The Concept of Standing in Benefit-Cost Analysis Richard O. Zerbe 5. Partial Equilibrium versus General Equilibrium Evaluations or Small versus Large Projects Per-Olov Johansson and Bengt Kriström 6. Benefit-cost Analysis and US Regulatory Review: Finding a Market Failure Susan E. Dudley 7. The Essentials: A Short Course for Young Professionals Gelsomina Catalano and Massimo Florio PART II Challenging Concepts and Examples 8. Valuing Statistical Lives Lisa A. Robinson 9. The Arithmetic of Efficiency—Or the Value of Marginal Analysis John Mendeloff 10. Treatment of Employing and Disemploying Workers David Greenberg 11. Uncertainty and Risk Nicholas Treich 12. On defining and valuing the benefits of health policy interventions: How and why CEA in health morphed into CU(B)A and “back-door” BCA David Salkever 13. Harmful Addiction David Weimer 14. Supplementing Benefit-Cost Analysis: Models for Transport and Land Use Decisions Emile Quinet 15. Evaluating Knowledge Projects and R&D Infrastructures with an Example Massimo Florio and Chiara Pancotti 16. Cost Estimation in Education: the Ingredients Method Clive Belfield, A. Brooks Bowden and Henry M. Levin 17. Distributional Accounting in Benefit-Cost Analysis Kerry Krutilla 18. Case Studies in the Classroom: Lessons Learned Stuart Shapiro 19. Simulation: Incorporating Uncertainty Scott Farrow Index

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Book Synopsis'The long-standing debate about entrepreneurship education has been given renewed impetus by the advent of experiential learning and student entrepreneurship. It is imperative therefore that entrepreneurship education research can make a contribution to our understanding about the direction and effectiveness of entrepreneurship education. In this volume, Alain Fayolle and an eminent set of contributors lay out frameworks and directions to guide much needed rigorous future research in this important area.'- Mike Wright, Imperial College London, UK'This book offers insightful and actionable ideas for improving entrepreneurship education, its evaluation and its underlying research process. Alain's compendium offers readers a deep dive into the underlying issues in teaching entrepreneurship, and goes beyond North American efforts to showcase European approaches. A worthwhile read for every entrepreneurship educator.'- Jerome A. Katz, Saint Louis University, US Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Edited by Alain Fayolle, this Research Agenda tackles the need for additional and robust intellectual foundations in entrepreneurship education, both at theoretical and methodological levels. The authors show that it is essential to connect entrepreneurship education more firmly with societal demands. Identifying two key issues, the eminent authors first question what the current pedagogies and practices in entrepreneurship education are. Secondly, the authors question what knowledge is known about the relevancy, usefulness and efficiency of the current practices in entrepreneurship education. This book calls for a pragmatic and critical approach in the development of perspectives in entrepreneurship education. This book presents innovative ideas and provocative contributions to the debate with the intention of generating significant new concepts for future researchers, policy makers and practitioners in entrepreneurship. Contributors include: N. Alabduljader, Y. Baggen, A. Bernal, R. Bliss, S. Bureau, D. De Clercq, A. Donnellon, A. Fayolle, M. Fetters, J. Gabrielsson, P. Greene, G. Hagg, B. Honig, B. Johannisson, P. Kyrö, H. Landstrom, T. Lans, F. Linan, M. Loi, B. Martin, J. McNally, L. Ploum, D. Politis, R. Ramani, G. SolomonTrade Review'An excellent contribution to our understanding of entrepreneurship education that truly pushes forward thinking about how to undertake research on this subject. It provides insights from some of the leading thinkers and will undoubtedly be a key work of reference for both educators and researchers.' --Luke Pittaway, Ohio University, US'The really interesting questions and insights in the field of entrepreneurship are coming from scholars focusing on entrepreneurship education. When we explore issues in entrepreneurship education we are delving into fundamental concerns about the knowledge, skills and activities that are essential for spurring entrepreneurial activity. A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship Education offers a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the theoretical and methodological foundations of entrepreneurial learning. The book is populated with a wide-ranging set of chapters by leading authorities in the entrepreneurship area that offer new insights and knowledge about entrepreneurship education that have important implications for entrepreneurship scholarship, policy and practice. The book is a ''must-read''. Yes. The book is that informative and perceptive.' --William B. Gartner, Babson College, US `'This edited book is a must-read for faculty who wish to use rigorous research to inform their practice of teaching entrepreneurship. The global panel of authors tackle a variety of perspectives - philosophical, didactical, epistemological, methodological, and individual - to explore the past, present and future of entrepreneurship education.' --Siri Terjesen, American University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Alain Fayolle PART I RETHINKING ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION RESEARCH 2. Toward Rigour and Relevance in Entrepreneurship Education Research Bruce Martin, Dirk De Clercq and Benson Honig 3. Dealing with the inconsistency of studies in entrepreneurship education effectiveness: A systemic approach to drive future research Michela Loi 4. The future of entrepreneurship education: educating for economic and social impact Patricia G. Greene, Michael L. Fetters, Richard Bliss and Anne Donnellon 5. Does entrepreneurship education develop wisdom? An exploration Jeffrey J. McNally, Benson Honig and Bruce Martin PART II LEARNING FROM EUROPEAN EXEMPLARY CONTRIBUTIONS 6. Exemplary contributions from Europe to entrepreneurship education research and practice Jonas Gabrielsson, Hans Landström, Diamanto Politis and Gustav Hägg 7. Personal views on the future of entrepreneurship education Alain Fayolle 8. Limits to and prospects of entrepreneurship education in the academic context Bengt Johannisson 9. The conceptual contribution of education to research on entrepreneurship education Paula Kyrö PART III FOCUSING ON KEY OUTCOMES AND INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES 10. The reflective novice entrepreneur: From habitual action to intelligent action using experience-based pedagogy as a vehicle for change Gustav Hägg 11. Towards more synergy in entrepreneurial competence research in entrepreneurship education Thomas Lans, Yvette Baggen and Lisa Ploum 12. Learning fictions or facts? Moving from case studies to the impact-based method Sylvain Bureau 13. The personal dimension of an entrepreneurial competence: An approach from the Spanish basic education context Antonio Bernal and Francisco Liñán 14. Approaches to entrepreneurship education: A qualitative review and comparison of the US and Canada Ravi S. Ramani, George T. Solomon and Nawaf Alabduljader Index

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Book SynopsisThe applied nature of the field of entrepreneurship means it is crucial for scholars and researchers to connect with practitioners to ensure that their work has an impact on real-world activity. This insightful book examines the need to bridge the gap between scientific rigour in entrepreneurship research and its practical relevance to external stakeholders, and demonstrates clearly how this can be achieved in practice. Featuring cutting-edge research, Rigour and Relevance in Entrepreneurship Research, Resources and Outcomes presents and evaluates current critical approaches in the field, analysing their theoretical value and their relevance to policy and practice. Chapters examine these approaches through the lens of specific issues and circumstances such as intrapreneurship, freelancing, crowdfunding, family firms and technology-based start-ups, providing a variety of perspectives and exemplifying how pragmatic questions can productively influence research agendas. This book's up-to-date analysis and practical insight will prove invaluable to scholars and researchers in entrepreneurship as well as other business and management academics. Students at all levels in these fields will also find it useful for considering future research.Trade Review'The Frontiers series offers a selection of the latest, cutting-edge research in entrepreneurship and small business in Europe. It has become a key resource for researchers, educators, entrepreneurs and policy makers interested in understanding entrepreneurship and the prosperity of SME's.' --Silke Tegtmeier, President of the ECSB, 2019Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: rigour and relevance in European Entrepreneurship Research Eddy Laveren, Robert Blackburn, Ulla Hytti and Hans Landström Part I: Rigour and relevance of entrepreneurship research 2. Relevance of entrepreneurship research Johan Wiklund 3. The rigour – relevance debate: strategies to avoid creating an ivory tower in entrepreneurship research Hans Landström 4. Introducing three academic conversations: Critical Entrepreneurship Studies, Entrepreneurship as Practice and a Radical Processual Approach to entrepreneurship Piritta Parkkari and Karen Verduijn 5. Women and family firms: A state of the art literature review Annalisa Sentuti, Francesca Maria Cesaroni and Serena Cubico Part II: Entrepreneurial mindset and intrapreneurial orientation 6. Toward a Comprehensive Measure of Entrepreneurial Mindset Kelly G. Shaver and Immanuel Commarmond 7. Technology intrapreneurs – intrapreneurial orientation and potential of IT students Christine Blanka, David Rückel, Stefan Koch and Norbert Kailer Part III: Entrepreneurial behavior, resources and outcomes 8. Human capital, external relations, and early firm performance of technology-based start-ups Hanna Rydehell, Anders Isaksson and Hans Löfsten 9. Disembeddedness, Prior Industry Knowledge and Opportunity Creation Processes Caroline Wigren, Karin Hellerstedt, Maria Aggestam, Anna Stevenson and Ethel Brundin 10. “Dear Crowd, let me tell you a story.” The influence of emotions, authenticity and sense of community on entrepreneur’s ability to acquire funds via crowdfunding Amélie Wuillaume, Amélie Jacquemin and Frank Janssen 11. Freelancing and the Struggle for Work-Time Control John Kitching and Marfuga Iskandarova Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook investigates the many perspectives from which to reconsider teaching and learning within business schools, during a time in which higher education is facing challenges to the way teaching might be delivered in the future.Bringing together a diverse range of expert contributors, this Handbook fills gaps in current knowledge and research, whilst expanding and exploring new fields. Topics covered include the use and value of learning technologies, leadership education and continuous professional development of research-based teachers. Crucially, the Handbook considers how faculty at all levels of seniority will be forced to challenge their own modus operandi in designing and delivering teaching. This is especially important during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, where blended learning should be carefully assessed before it is adopted as part of any course design.Offering both practical suggestions and cutting-edge research into the field, this Handbook will be a key resource for academics, practitioners and students in business and management education who wish to consolidate their teaching and learning and further understand the broader issues surrounding it.Trade Review'The modernization of student learning experiences has never been more pressing than post-COVID. This thought-provoking book provides a plethora of perspectives on how to achieve better and more modern learning, through teams, through technology, through cases and through the continuous professional development of educators. This volume is a useful handbook both for educational practitioners and for researchers in educational research and development. Highly recommended!' -- Peter Møllgaard, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, the Netherlands'Business education has experienced significant transformation in the 21st century, and more recently through the pressures on business schools to adapt to blended learning practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. This compilation of papers provides an excellent resource to help navigate and understand the important dimensions of successful modern business education. It includes contributions from some leading scholars and across a range of important topics, including learning environments, technologies, CPD and research-led teaching.' -- Stuart J. Barnes, King's College London, UK'This book provides valuable direction to business schools during these transformational times. The chapters explore how business schools can improve the educational process, implement learning technologies, and effect pedagogical and social change.' -- C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Temple University, Philadelphia, US'As we grapple with intensifying calls for change, this indispensable compendium poses critical questions whilst simultaneously offering valuable insights into the transformation journey that lies ahead for business school leadership and faculty.' -- Nicola Kleyn, Erasmus University, the Netherlands'This is a much-needed compendium, bringing together contributions addressing a wide variety of aspects of business school teaching. It is a timely, original and interesting volume, written by educators and scholars based across the world. A must-read not only for those who are new to teaching but for everyone who wishes to keep abreast of pedagogic developments in business schools.' -- Martyna Sliwa, University of Essex, UK and Co-Editor of Management Learning'The book Handbook of Teaching and Learning at Business Schools: A Practice-Based Approach is a timeous and much needed book targeted at teaching faculty, administrators, and management of business schools across the globe. The book covers key issues business schools, irrespective of their geographic location, grapple with in ensuring an optimal learning experience for students. The book provides transformational perspectives of learning and gives insight into contemporary learning environments. The section on the use and value of learning technologies cannot come at a more opportune time. The book also deals with aspects related to the teaching and assessing in the business school classroom, leadership education and professional development of teaching faculty. It concludes with a section addressing the translation of research into teaching, work integrated teaching and how to harness the synergies between research, teaching, and engagement. This is a must read as it provides deep insight into so many of the pertinent issues relevant to business school teaching and learning.' -- – Daniel J. Petzer, Henley Business School Africa, South Africa'No other group of graduates has more access to resources than those with a business-oriented degree. How can Universities prepare them for both the opportunities as well as the duties connected with such access? The authors of Handbook of Teaching and Learning at Business Schools: A Practice-Based Approach have the pertinent answers for business educators of the current and next generation.' -- Gregor Halff, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark'Recent events have forced us to re-think how we undertake teaching and learning in business schools. This collection of essays on management education arrives at the perfect time to help us organize and enhance our thoughts about the changes underway, providing an overdue research perspective.' -- Robert D. Austin, Ivey Business School, London, Canada'A timely and refreshing text!! Targeted at those who are eagerly seeking new ways of teaching and engaging students in challenging contexts. This book emphasises co-production of education, the importance of involving key stakeholders in the learning experience while ensuring leadership and professionalism remain core. This is a “must-read” for Business School faculty.' -- Julian Gould-Williams, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Teaching and Learning at Business Schools PART I TRANSFORMATION PERSPECTIVES 1 Community-engaged learning in business schools to effect social change: a capabilities perspective 2 Carolin Kreber, Leslie Wardley, Catherine Leviten-Reid and Stephanie MacPherson 2 Using co-design processes to support strategic pedagogical change in business education 20 Stephanie Wilson, Elaine Huber and Peter Bryant 3 Benefits and challenges of Assurance of Learning: making the intangible tangible 36 Lilia Mantai PART II LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS 4 The promise of the business studio: teaching for design and entrepreneurship at business schools 52 Kasper Merling Arendt and Bo T. Christensen 5 A framework for motivating business students through teaching, learning and curriculum design 68 David Kember 6 The challenge of reflexive pedagogy in executive education: a personal case study 82 Marian Iszatt-White 7 Team-based learning in the business school classroom: adaptation versus fidelity 95 Barbara Larson and Michael Sweet PART III THE USE AND VALUE OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES 8 Transformations towards blended learning: key issues to address 115 Annemette Kjærgaard, Thyra Uth Thomsen and Sylvia von Wallpach 9 The influence of technology on business schools’ curricula: a triple crown perspective 123 Loïc Plé and Bernadett Koles 10 Gamification in education: the case of gamified learning in teams 138 Rushana Khusainova, Yasin Sahhar and Ad de Jong PART IV IN THE BUSINESS SCHOOL CLASSROOM 11 Lecturing 160 Linda Greve 12 The case for cases: using historical and live cases to enhance student learning 178 René W.J. Moolenaar and Michael B. Beverland 13 Using live business projects to develop graduate employability skills 195 Eleri Rosier 14 Addressing the challenges of assessment and feedback in business schools: developing assessment practices which support learning 207 Nicola Reimann, Kay Sambell, Ian Sadler and Carolin Kreber 15 Business studios of practice 226 Stefan Meisiek PART V LEADERSHIP EDUCATION 16 Building a new identity for business schools: learning how to act with authenticity through the critical teaching of leadership 238 Alyson Nicholds 17 New avenues for leadership education and development: shaping leader identity through meaning-making from experiences 249 Sonja Zaar, Piet Van den Bossche and Wim Gijselaers 18 Equipping students with the attributes needed by business leaders in an era of social and technological change 264 David Kember PART VI CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH-BASED TEACHERS 19 How to motivate professors to teach 277 Uwe Wilkesmann and Sabine Lauer 20 Teaching and learning with our colleagues: the Associate Professor Development Programme at Copenhagen Business School 291 Alan Irwin Index

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Book SynopsisHow to Manage Student Consulting Projects describes the key principles and tools needed by project advisors to manage student consulting projects in an academic setting. The authors highlight different approaches for managing student consulting teams, including an innovative model in which graduate students manage undergraduates. This model of experiential learning suggests that project advisors should include reflection of learning as a key outcome for any student consulting project. The book also emphasizes the importance of evaluating both team and individual performance in a project's overall success, and data are shown on the positive impact that student teams have had on clients. In addition to offering strategies that project advisors can use to improve project performance, the book provides information for program administrators and deans, as well as project managers in non-academic settings, to help in the development and running of project-based learning.Trade Review‘When designed and managed well, students consulting projects can lay and reify some of the strongest knowledge and professional foundations for our students. This book shows us how.’ -- Christina Kyprianou, Academy of Management Learning & Education'I've seen firsthand how effectively managing student consulting projects can provide a valuable experience for students and a high impact service for clients. As a former dean and provost at Babson, I witnessed the authors of this book take the student consulting program to new heights and transform it into one of the most meaningful experiential learning opportunities you will find anywhere. You will want to learn from them and adopt their principles in your own program.' --Dennis Hanno, President, Wheaton College, US>'The Boston Red Sox organization has benefited greatly from the work of the student consulting teams from Babson College for over 6 years. It is clear that the program at Babson provides the students with the ability to work closely with our organization while also making relevant, actionable recommendations. --Jason Lumsden, Director of IT, Boston Red Sox'The Babson student consulting teams were a valuable resource to me when I was Governor of New Hampshire. The teams brought an independent and innovative perspective to a number of state agencies. Prof. Joe Weintraub, George Lee and Arline MacCormack have written an important book that I highly recommend to faculty and institutions in higher education who want to give real-world experiences to students while providing meaningful advice to organizations from all sectors of the economy.' --The Honorable Craig R. Benson, CEO of Soft Draw Investments; former Chairman and CEO at Cabletron Systems Inc.; and former Governor of the State of New HampshireTable of ContentsContents: Introduction How to Manage Student Consulting Projects 1. Experiential Learning at Babson College 2. The Realities of Running Student Consulting Teams and Best Practices 3. Recruiting and Selecting Clients/Projects, Students, Project Advisors and Program Administrators 4. First Steps to Take in Managing Student Project Teams 5. Managing Student Project Teams Throughout the Semester 6. Evaluation, Learning, Virtual Teams and Recommendations Index

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