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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Transversal topics -- pt. 3. National patterns -- pt. 4. Methodological issues, tools and data platform.
Although the role of universities in the knowledge society is increasingly significant, there remains a severe lack of systematic quantitative evidence at the micro-level, with virtually all policy discussion based on country level statistics or case studies. This book redresses the balance by examining original data from universities in six European countries – Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK