Innovation, Profit And The Common Good In Higher Education: The New Alchemy (issues In Higher Education)

Exploring the current commercialization and innovation policies in higher education, this book examines the way it is being transformed to accommodate business methods. University ethics is everyone's business, and big business is what the university is all about whether in the US, Europe or the rest of the world. How this has come about is less important than that it has, and is being taken very seriously by global and national forces. The important issue confronting higher education is its assumed role in guaranteeing economic prosperity. Governments are no longer content to let research leak out serendipitously into the economy. The Post-Industrial Society, Information Society, Knowledge Economy and Smart Economy require nothing less than commercially directed research producing innovatory products. The public interest is reduced to economic measures. The political, social and moral implications of changing practices in the university are rarely acknowledged in the rise of the New Alchemy. This book examines the resulting ambiguities and questionable evidence in favour of current polices Exploring The Current Commercialisation And Innovation Policies In Higher Education, This Book Examines The The Way In Which Higher Education Is Being Transformed To Accommodate Business Methods--provided By Publisher. Machine Generated Contents Note: Prolegomenon: University Ethics And The Last Of The Lost Resources. -- Shopping In The Aula Maxima: Furniture For The Masses. -- Atlantic Mouse Becomes Celtic Tiger: A New Celtic World Order? -- Science And The Universities: Shilling For A Living? -- Firing Up The New Alchemy: The Furnace Of Innovation And Profit -- Secrets: The Future Of The Future University. John Harpur. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 276-306) And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-x Prolegomenon....Pages 1-33 Shopping in the Aula Maxima....Pages 34-51 Atlantic Mouse Becomes Celtic Tiger....Pages 52-109 Science and Universities: Shilling for a Living?....Pages 110-163 Firing up the New Alchemy — the Furnace of Innovation....Pages 164-209 Secrets — the Future of the Future University....Pages 210-243 Back Matter....Pages 244-310 This work explores the current commercialization and innovation policies in higher education, this book examines the way it is being transformed to accommodate business methods