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The development of new generic technologies occurs within traditional structures of industry-government interaction, but also unleashes a process of 'creative destruction' generating new institutional patterns. This article, focusing on biotechnology, compares policy processes & institutional arrangements in Australia & Sweden. The Swedish biotechnology sector displays a pattern of fragmentation & relatively weak state steering. Australia, by contrast, has implemented a set of comparatively coordinated regulatory & other measures to foster the growth of biotechnology. This observation contradicts the characterization of Sweden as a 'strong state' economy, & challenges the depiction of Australia as lacking in state steering capacity. The relative open-endedness of the search in these countries for a mode of regulation of biotechnology suggests that the role of the state in economic restructuring today is fundamentally distinct from that of earlier periods. 58 References. Adapted from the source document.

Part 1: The University mission before, during and after COVID -- Part 2: An overview of pre-pandemic higher education systems, challenges and opportunities in the UK, Sweden and Australia -- Chapter 1: Higher education in the United Kingdom -- Chapter 2: Higher education in Sweden: unitary and diversified under state authority -- Chapter 3: Higher education in Australia -- Part 3: COVID stories – the lived experience of students, staff, academics and leaders during the pandemic -- Chapter4: The lived experience of students during the COVID pandemic -- Chapter 5: The lived experience of academics during the COVID pandemic -- Chapter 6: The lived experience of professional staff response to COVID -- Chapter 7: The lived experience of university leaders during the COVID pandemic -- Part 4: Closing reflections and lessons learnt for the future – time for a university reset.

With business schools becoming increasingly market-driven, questionable trends have emerged, such as the conflation of academic and corporate management, and the notion that academics and students are market players, who respond rationally to market signals. Using individual studies from leading scholars in a variety of disciplines and countries, this book identifies the global pressures behind these trends. It focuses on the debates surrounded the commercialization of business schools, and the rise of different methods of measuring their success. In their unique approach, the authors and editors discuss the impact of the confrontation between the timeless values embodied by Minerva, the Roman goddess of Wisdom, and the hard realities of competition and corporatization in modern society. This book will be compelling reading for students and academics in critical management studies, organizational studies, public management and higher education, as well as for stakeholders in academia and educational policy.

The phenomenon of the entrepreneurial university has been the subject of important debates and discussions in different economic and social contexts due to the need for greater interaction between university, industry, and government. As a result, several universities in different parts of the world have been engaged in a transformation process towards a new organizational model, with adherence to a more entrepreneurial or innovative university. In this context, the aim of this study is to analyze the pathways developed by studied universities pursuing an entrepreneurial university model. Therefore, the technique of multiple case study was used having three universities as the empirical field: two in Brazil, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), and one in Sweden, Lund University (LU). Results show that those universities developed pathways based on research activities, which significantly contributed to the increase of university-industry-government relationships. In addition, the three cases show the relevance of a close relationship with their surroundings when implementing the third academic mission. ; El fenómeno de la universidad emprendedora ha sido objeto de importantes debates y discusiones en diferentes contextos económicos y sociales, debido a la necesidad de una mayor interacción entre la universidad, la industria y el gobierno. Como resultado, varias universidades en diferentes partes del mundo han participado en un proceso de transformación hacia un nuevo modelo organizacional, con adhesión a una universidad más emprendedora o innovadora. En este contexto, esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar la trayectoria seguida por las universidades estudiadas en busca de un modelo de univerdad emprendedora. Para esto, se utilizó la técnica de estudio de caso múltiple, teniendo como campo empírico tres universidades: dos en Brasil, la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) y la ...

There is an urgent need for radical transformations of unsustainable socio-technical systems, such as food, mobility, and housing. These transformations will not take place without new policies and research. In order to achieve these transitions, learning must be a central feature based on thorough evaluations of the actions taken. Evaluations have been conducted and studied for decades, but traditional evaluation approaches have largely been developed to produce knowledge for incremental changes, not for radical transformations. This article develops a framework for interdisciplinary evaluations targeting transformative changes toward a more sustainable society. The framework combines evaluation theory and practice with transition theory, sociology of science, policy analyses, and environmental psychology. While the primary purpose of the framework is to help design evaluations that would better enhance learning for transitions, it can also be used for systematic meta-evaluations of past evaluations.