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Altbach, Philip G. – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2007
The research university is a central institution of the 21st century--providing access to global science, producing basic and applied research, and educating key leaders for academe and society. Worldwide, there are very few research universities--they are expensive to develop and support, and the pressures of massification have placed priorities…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Higher Education, Developing Nations, Research and Development