The Research Mission of Higher Education Institutions outside the University Sector
The European Union’s Lisbon strategy, which aims to make the region the most competitive and dynamic knowledge economy in the world, has given a much higher profile to tertiary education institutions outside the traditional university sector in a number o
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HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS VOLUME 31 Series Editor Peter Maassen, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Johan Muller, Graduate School of Humanities, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Editorial Board Alberto Amaral, CIPES and Universidade do Porto, Portugal Akira Arimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan Nico Cloete, CHET, Pretoria, South Africa David Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jürgen Enders, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Patricia Gumport, Stanford University, USA Mary Henkel, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom Glen Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Higher Education Dynamics is a bookseries intending to study adaptation processes and their outcomes in higher education at all relevant levels. In addition it wants to examine the way interactions between these levels affect adaptation processes. It aims at applying general social science concepts and theories as well as testing theories in the field of higher education research. It wants to do so in a manner that is of relevance to all those professionally involved in higher education, be it as ministers, policy-makers, politicians, institutional leaders or administrators, higher education researchers, members of the academic staff of universities and colleges, or students. It will include both mature and developing systems of higher education, covering public as well as private institutions.
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Svein Kyvik · Benedetto Lepori Editors
The Research Mission of Higher Education Institutions Outside the University Sector Striving for Differentiation
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Editors Dr. Svein Kyvik Norwegian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU STEP) Wergelandsveien 7 0167 Oslo Norway [email protected]
Dr. Benedetto Lepori University of Lugano Faculty of Economics Centre for Organizational Research Via Giuseppe Buffi 13 6904 Lugano Switzerland [email protected]
ISSN 1571-0378 ISBN 978-1-4020-9243-5 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9244-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9244-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010928325 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Even if in most countries, higher education institutions outside the university sector originally did not have a research mandate, it is well known that many of these institutions, which in the English language variably are named ‘universities of applied sciences’, ‘university co
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