Mok The Quest for Entrepreneurial Universities in East Asia

2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-31754-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: International and Development Education

With the rise of the knowledge economy, universities are under pressure to embrace not just their traditional missions of teaching and research but a third mission of serving economic and social development. This book examines the major strategies that governments in East Asia have adopted to promote this kind of innovation in the education sector.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mok, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Globalization and Higher Education: Major Trends and Challenges 2. Policy Context for the Quest for Innovation and Entrepreneurial University in East Asia PART I: QUESTING FOR THE ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY AND PROMOTING INNOVATION 3. Diversifying the Economic Pillars and Enhancing Innovation and Research Development: Hong Kong Experiences 4. Promotion of Innovation and Knowledge Transfer: South Korean Experiences 5. After Massification of Higher Education: Questing for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Universities in Taiwan 6. Asserting its Global Influence: The Quest for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Universities in Singapore 7. Promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Enhancing Research and Reforming University Curriculum in China PART II: INTERNATIONALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND STUDENT LEARNING 8. The Call for Internationalization: Questing for Regional Education Hub Status and Trans-nationalizing Higher Education in Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong 9. Transnationalization of Higher Education in China: Development Trends, Salient Features and Challenges for University Governance 10. Transnationalization of Higher Education and Student Learning Experiences 11. Transnationalization of Higher Education and Changing Regulatory Regimes and Governance in East Asia PART III: UNIVERSITY PERFORMANCE, CHANGING UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR EAST ASIA 12. Questing for the Entrepreneurial University in East Asia: Impacts on Academics and University Governance Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Ka Ho Mok is Chair Professor of Comparative Policy for the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is also Changjiang Chair Professor of Zhejiang University in China, a national chair professorship conferred by the Ministry of Education in 2010. He is currently Chairman of the East Asian Social Policy research network, Chairman of the Hong Kong Educational Research Association, and President of the Hong Kong Sociological Association.