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Estermann, Thomas; Kupriyanova, Veronika – European University Association, 2018
A substantial share of public investment is spent on public procurement in the European Union (EU) (ca. EUR 2 trillion per annum, representing 14% of EU GDP) and quality public services depend on well-managed and efficient modern procurement. Improving public procurement can yield big savings: a 1% efficiency gain could save EUR 20 billion every…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Purchasing, Public Colleges, College Administration
Soutif, M. – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1984
The universities' role in the development of the new technologies is not essentially different from their current role for scientific knowledge in general: educating specialists, disseminating knowledge, and contributing to discoveries and applications of new knowledge. However, certain features of the new technology may impose constraints for…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Role, Higher Education, Information Dissemination
Roy, Rene – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1987
The development of the Grenoble-Meylan (France) science park is described, highlighting the process by which the need for careful and coordinated planning was needed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Facility Expansion, Facility Planning, Foreign Countries
King, Judson C., Ed.; Douglass, John Aubrey, Ed.; Feller, Irwin, Ed. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2007
To frame the larger research agenda requires an intimate blending of knowledge of the situations of foreign research universities and those of public research universities in the United States. The first step was to bring together for a two-day symposium a group of scholars and practitioners, some with deep and varied knowledge of United States…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Public Colleges, Research Universities