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van der Wende, Marijk – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The global competition and related international academic mobility in science and research is rising. Within this context, Europe faces quantitative skills shortages, including an estimate of between 800,000 and one million researchers. Within Europe skills imbalances and mismatches increase, with a growing divergence between countries and…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, International Cooperation, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Atkinson, Richard C.; Blanpied, William A. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This paper traces the historical development of the American research and technology enterprise from its origins in the post-Civil War period to its current international dominance in the discovery and dissemination of scientific knowledge. U.S. research universities have become the vital center of this enterprise over the past 60 years. But…
Descriptors: Research Universities, United States History, Research and Development, 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