Publisher's Synopsis
Winner of the 2017 Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education (CIHE/ASHE)
Winner of the 2018 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence: Education Theory
The chapters offer new insights into how countries develop the university-based knowledge thought fundamental to meeting social needs and economic demands. Despite repeated warnings that universities would lose in relevance to other organizational forms in the production of knowledge, these findings demonstrate incontrovertibly that universities have become more-not less-important actors in the world of knowledge. The past hundred years have seen the worldwide triumph of the research university.
