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Universities find themselves in dynamic change. They are confronted with growing expectations from their stakeholders, increasing international competition, and new technological challenges. Featuring insights and in-depth case studies from leading researchers and university decision makers from around the world, this book argues that institutions of higher education, in order to be successful, have to actively reflect on circumstances, visions, and strategies to master the future.

Drawing from their experiences across a diverse array of institutions in Europe, Asia, and the...

Altmanns Daseinsenthusiasmus ist mitreißend, Franz Schuh, WDR

Neben mir sitzt Platon (!), Typ gebrechlicher Großvater. Wir plaudern, und ich frage ihn, ob er glücklich sei. Bestimmt! Ja! Und warum? »¡La vida!«, das Leben sorge dafür. Kaum hat er die zwei Wörter ausgesprochen, schleudert er in einer scharfen Kurve vom Sitz. Als ich nach ihm greife, liegt er schon am Boden. Ich hieve ihn auf seinen Platz zurück, aber Platon bemerkt, dass sein Klingelgeld aus der Hosentasche flog. So suchen wir beide...

Universities find themselves in dynamic change. They are confronted with growing expectations from their stakeholders, increasing international competition, and new technological challenges. Featuring insights and in-depth case studies from leading researchers and university decision makers from around the world, this book argues that institutions of higher education, in order to be successful, have to actively reflect on circumstances, visions, and strategies to master the future.

Drawing from their experiences across a diverse array of institutions in Europe, Asia, and the...

This book provides a unifying approach to the study of statistical laws, critically evaluating their role in the theoretical understanding of complex systems and the different data-analysis methods used to evaluate them. Statistical laws describe regular patterns observed in diverse scientific domains, ranging from the magnitude of earthquakes (Gutenberg-Richter law) and metabolic rates in organisms (Kleiber's law), to the frequency distribution of words in texts (Zipf's and Herdan-Heaps' laws), and productivity metrics of cities (urban scaling laws). The origins of these laws, their...