Brazil is the world's largest exporter of coffee, sugar, can-based ethanol, orange juice, and iron ore. Yet over the past 10 years, its economy has grown an average of only 2.5 percent per year. The questions increasingly being asked is, How can Brazil improve its competitiveness in the global economy? 'Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil' makes a compelling argument that, in a global economy that is increasingly knowledge drive, human capital is key to growth. The book supports this argument by mapping the relationship between microeconomic inputs, such as health and...
Brazil is the world's largest exporter of coffee, sugar, can-based ethanol, orange juice, and iron ore. Yet over the past 10 years, its economy has gr...
Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the important contribution that high performance, world-class universities make to global competitiveness and economic growth. There is growing recognition, in both industrial and developing countries, of the need to establish one or more world-class universities that can compete effectively with the best of the best around the world. Contextualizing the drive for world-class higher education institutions and the power of international and domestic university rankings, this book outlines possible strategies and pathways for establishing globally...
Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the important contribution that high performance, world-class universities make to global competitivene...
Les gouvernements sont de plus en plus conscients du role important que jouent les universites de rang mondial par leur contribution a la competitivite globale de leurs economies. Aussi bien les pays industrialises que les pays en developpement se rendent compte de la necessite d avoir une ou plusieurs universites de haut standing qui peuvent tenir leur rang par rapport aux meilleures parmi les meilleures. En replacant les efforts pour etablir des universites de rang mondial dans le contexte plus general du developpement des systemes d enseignement superieur et en reconnaissant l impact...
Les gouvernements sont de plus en plus conscients du role important que jouent les universites de rang mondial par leur contribution a la competitivit...
The positive contribution of tertiary education is increasingly recognized as not limited to middle-income and advanced countries, since it applies equally to low-income economies. Tertiary education can help countries become more globally competitive by developing a skilled, productive, and flexible labor force and by creating, applying, and spreading new ideas and technologies. Research universities are reckoned among the central institutions of the 21st century knowledge economies. This book extends the analysis of the framework presented in The Challenge of Establishing World-Class...
The positive contribution of tertiary education is increasingly recognized as not limited to middle-income and advanced countries, since it applies eq...
Les principaux chapitres du present ouvrage correspondent a neuf etudes de cas qui illustrent ce qu'il faut faire pour creer et maintenir des universites de recherche. Les redacteurs ont choisi specifiquement ces etudes de cas en fonction de plusieurs criteres. Nous avons tout d'abord veille a un bon equilibre regional en incluant des exemples d'au moins cinq regions sur quatre continents: Amerique latine (Chili et Mexique), Asie du Sud (Inde), Asie de l'Est et du Sud-Est (Chine; RAS de Hong Kong, Chine; Republique de Coree; Malaisie; Singapour), Europe de l'Est (Federation de Russie) et...
Les principaux chapitres du present ouvrage correspondent a neuf etudes de cas qui illustrent ce qu'il faut faire pour creer et maintenir des universi...
This book discusses the role that integrated science and higher education policies may play in further democratizing and promoting social-economic development in Latin America. It suggests that such democratizing and development may be achieved in two complementary ways: I) broadening the access to knowledge through formal learning processes of higher education, and II) promoting the advanced qualification of people while strengthening research institutions. The book shows how this entails a complex process of policy integration, with an emphasis on human resources and institutional issues...
This book discusses the role that integrated science and higher education policies may play in further democratizing and promoting social-economic ...
