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Direct linkAltbach, Philip G. – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Research universities are a central part of all academic systems. They are the key points of international contact and involvement. Research is produced, disseminated and in many cases imported. For developing countries, the mechanisms for the involvement of research universities in the global knowledge economy is complex, and includes issues of…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Knowledge Economy, Developing Nations, Technology Transfer
Altbach, Philip G. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
The research university is a central institution of the twenty-first century--providing access to global science, producing basic and applied research, and educating leaders of the academe and society. Worldwide, there are very few research universities--they are expensive to develop and support, and the pressures of massification have placed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Universities, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Altbach, Philip G.; Reisberg, Liz; Rumbley, Laura E. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
A global revolution has been taking place in higher education during the past half-century. In the educators' view, four fundamental and interrelated forces have impelled the current academic revolution: the "massification" of higher education, globalization, the advent of the knowledge society and the importance of research universities…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Human Capital, Privatization
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
