Evaluating Collaboration Networks in Higher Education Research Drive
This book identifies key factors that drive the development and improvement of higher education research in emerging and advanced economies. In an increasingly interconnected world, knowledge production supported by strong research is a channel for the de
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Denise Leite • Isabel Pinho
Evaluating Collaboration Networks in Higher Education Research Drivers of Excellence
Denise Leite Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Isabel Pinho University of Aveiro Aveiro, Baixo Vouga, Portugal
ISBN 978-3-319-45224-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-45225-8
ISBN 978-3-319-45225-8 (eBook)
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In Memoriam Rui Santiago With him we built networks across the Atlantic
PREFACE
Once, years ago, an american writer said that autonomy was not exactly a condition for democracy: the reverse would be absolutely true. Without participation in what is important to welfare, without the right to engage in the decision-making process, we are no more than incomplete humans in a system that decides for us. “Freedom, justice, equality, and autonomy are all products of common thinking and common living; democracy creates them” (Barber, 1984, p. xv). Our deepest values, participation, and autonomy, lying in the foundations of our academic work, were expressed in the realization of this book. In this direction, both of us, the authors, were researching, separated by an ocean of distance. In common, we have the same research theme—networks. When we think about the origin of this book, we remember the moments of intense intellectual activity in a conference, sponsored by an
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