Als »Brain Bank Asia« beschreibt Irene Jansen die asiatische Hochschullandschaft. Gerade China, Indien, Singapur und Japan seien die »new knowledge producing powerhouses in Asia«. In ihrer Präsentation stellt sie Eckdaten einiger asiatischer...

This special issue is a bridging effort to bring together science policy and academic research productivity analysis by focusing on knowledge production, diffusion and commercialization policies and practices. The discussion addresses two major...

The paper condenses recent empirical findings about the characteristics of those firms that utilize and appreciate knowledge spillovers from higher education organizations. We discuss these findings, sketch out how these empirical findings relate...

This report by the authors Endika Bengoetxea, Outi Kallioinen, Immo Schmidt-Jortzig and Richard Thorn is based on the ENQA workshop on the theme “Quality Assurance in Lifelong Learning” that was held from the 16-17th of May 2011 in Bonn, Germany...

Rankings are part and parcel of the neoliberal agenda in science aiming at increasing the competitive allocation of funds among universities. This article focuses on the decreasing power of renewal in science as a result of this agenda...

This publication is a documentation of the Bologna-Seminar »The Quality Assurance System for Higher Education at European and National Level«, organised by the Quality Management Project of the German Rectors' Conference, which took place in...