Universities in the Knowledge Economy Higher education organisation and global change

Preface Series Editors' Introduction: International Studies in Higher Education 1. Introduction: the emergence of the university's role in the knowledge economy Section 1 Understanding Universities as Knowledge Producers 2. University Organisation and Knowledge Production 3. Some Wicked Questions from the Dismal Science 4. Universities, Firms and Knowledge 5. Managing University-Enterprise Partnerships 6. Valorisation, Knowledge Transfer and IP: creating value from academic knowledge 7. Universities and Spatiality in Regional Knowledge Economies 8. Universities and the Informal Knowledge Economy Section 2 Some Regional Perspectives on Universities and Knowledge Production 9. Universities, Communities and Knowledge in the United States 10. Chinese Universities: supporting a new knowledge economy 11. Universities and Knowledge Production in Central Europe Section 3 Conceptual Approaches to Universities' Knowledge 12. The University and its Student Community: knowledge as "transformation"? 13. Liquid Knowledge, Liquid Universities