Knowledge production and distribution of higher education institutions in the sway of global development trends

Maik Adomßent

Knowledge production and distribution of higher education institutions in the sway of global development trends

Maik Adomßent

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Abstract

This contribution wants to deliberate on the question how universities can (and possibly will) react upon future challenges of the knowledge society. Although universities are unique in producing new knowledge through research that is then consolidated and distributed through teaching, there is no guarantee for a continuity of this characteristic trait. Are they really 'dumb organisations' (that's what the former Fortune editor Tom Stewart called them) with too much 'human capital' but not enough 'structural capital'? If so, the scenario of Fuller might become true: universities might evolve into two 'post-academic' organisations by disaggregating the unity of teaching and research: to a 'diploma mill', the other to a 'patent factory' (Fuller 2003: 119) ...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Wissen als Begleiter!? : das Individuum als lebenslanger Lerner
Editors	Rita Herwig, Jens Uhlig, Johannes Küstner
Number of pages	22
Place of Publication	Münster, Westf
Publisher	LIT Verlag
Publication date	2008
Pages	153-174
ISBN (Print)	978-3-8258-1727-5
Publication status	Published - 2008

Bibliographical note

Literaturverz. S. 173-174

Research areas and keywords

Sustainability sciences, Communication

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Knowledge production and distribution of higher education institutions in the sway of global development trends. / Adomßent, Maik.
Wissen als Begleiter!?: das Individuum als lebenslanger Lerner. ed. / Rita Herwig; Jens Uhlig; Johannes Küstner. Münster, Westf: LIT Verlag, 2008. p. 153-174 (Diagonal denken; Vol. 4).

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Knowledge production and distribution of higher education institutions in the sway of global development trends

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