Innovation, Profit and the Common Good in Higher Education: The New Alchemy

by John Harpur

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230537871
• ISBN13: 9780230537873
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"