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Innovation, profit and the common good in higher education : the new alchemy / John Harpur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harpur, John, 1958-
- Series:
- Issues in higher education (New York, N.Y.)
- Issues in higher education series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Economic aspects.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
- Higher education and state.
- Business and education.
- Physical Description:
- x, 310 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230537873
- 0230537871
- OCLC:
- 472791506
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