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Leadership and Cooperation in Academia focuses on the place and the role of universities in different societies, including their influence on the socio-economic development of those societies. Across the world academic institutions are being questioned by their stakeholders and pressured to change. Answering these questions requires that academics and professional managers in universities think about their work, its value and organisation. The book highlights the need for space and stimulus to reflect on the responsibilities, roles and expectations that they identify for themselves, and that others place upon them – then, they might be better able to understand and to act. Similarly, policymakers and higher education commentators need the space and stimulus to reflect on the role of universities. This book will provide this space and an invaluable contribution to the stimulus. This innovative volume will be enriching to academics and professional managers who are interested in leading, managing and contributing in an academic environment. Policymakers and higher education commentators concerned with the development and impacts of universities will also find plenty of insightful information in this timely study.
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LEADERSHIP & COOPERATION IN ACADEMIA
Martes de Innobasque:
‘Utilizando el conocimiento para innovar’
Deusto Business School, Bilbao, 9th July 2013
James Wilson
(Orkestra & Deusto Business School)
jamierwilson
The global university is mainly adapting to private interests rather than supporting public projects and the common good
Gerd Biesta (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
The main problem confronting academia is the difficulty of asserting universities’ valuable social role while resisting threats to autonomy from “the state as a social engineer” and “the student as a customer”
Gordon Graham (Princeton Theological Semenary, US)
The Social Role of the University
“Where were you?” Now more than ever there is a need for engagement and involvement of the economics profession in the problems of our day
David Blanchflower (Dartmouth College, US)
A key task facing universities is to provide people with the creative space to meet socio-economic development challenges
Roger Sugden (University of British Columbia, Canada)
We need to recognise the value of sensibility, a sensibility that requires play, which “wastes time”
Thomas Docherty (University of Warwick, UK)
An important ‘space’
The intrinsic motivation of academics needs renewal and nurturing to generate enquiry-led research and new ideas
Silvia Sacchetti (University of Stirling, UK)
The meeting of university and society is very context specific and depends on many different dimensions: institutional, communicative, power, identity, cultural …
Roger Normann & Hans Chr Garmann Johnsen (University of Agder, Norway)
Action research can contribute to opening up the black box of interactive learning processes between academic research and regional actors
Mari José Aranguren, James Karlsen, Miren Larrea & James Wilson (Orkestra & Deusto Business School, Spain)
Connecting the ‘space’ …
A crisis of leadership in higher education: the leader cannot simply be the agent of another more powerful force; leadership should enhance and extend freedom
Thomas Docherty (University of Warwick, UK)
The Case of Orkestra
3 CASES
CONCLUSIONS
Cluster Mapping
Cluster Evaluation
Territorial Competitiveness
Diagnostics
• Difficult balance between theoretical and action components
• Patience & commitment: It takes time to co-generate knowledge
• Institutional legitimacy is important
• Behaviour of researchers and types of research outputs need to evolve
GRACIAS
ESKERRIK ASKO
THANK YOU
Martes de Innobasque:
‘Utilizando el conocimiento para innovar’
Deusto Business School, Bilbao, 9 de julio 2013
James Wilson
(Orkestra & Deusto Business School)
jamierwilson
