Que Anh Dang and Marta Vizcaya Echano Abstract Increasing interaction between universities, industry and government – the “triple-helix” model – creates new ways of training knowledge workers to meet labour market demands in the knowledge-based economy. Que Anh Dangand Marta Vizcaya Echano from Coventry University discuss how triple-helix partners seize the opportunities and overcome the challenges … Opportunities and challenges of training “triple-helix knowledge workers” in collaborative doctoral programmes

Including science and technology as key dimensions of foreign policy and international relationships at different political levels is one of the calls backed by a group of scientists, research administrators, officials and policy makers. They see a confluence of interests in the benefit of both the scientific endeavour as well as legitimate broader political and … What role for science diplomacy in addressing global challenges?

Teele Tõnismann In my paper “Paths of Baltic States’ public research funding 1989–2010: Between institutional heritage and internationalization” (Tõnismann,2018) I analyse transformations in public research funding of the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The paper is part of my PhD thesis where the topic is further explored with the example of research funding practices … Paths of Baltic States’ public research funding 1989–2010: Between institutional heritage and internationalization

Teresa Carvalho and Sara Diogo Autonomy has been at the core of the University since its creation, in the Middle Ages, and it has always been greatly cherished by academics. Nevertheless, autonomy has been constantly redefined over time, contextually and politically, as the influence of the State (and even the Church) in higher education systems … Exploring the relationship between institutional and professional autonomy: a comparative study between Portugal and Finland

Corina Balaban & Susan Wright Mobility in Doctoral Educationwas the topic we tackled in the most recent special issue of LATISS, the International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences. ‘Mobility’ is now a buzzword of research policy, referring to a whole range of experiences, from moving between countries to switching between disciplines and … Mobility in Doctoral Education

How do researchers contribute to policymaking? What facilitates policy learning? And how do big data influence research-policy nexus and policy-making in European cities and regions? These are some of the questions addressed in the new book ‘Knowledge, Policymaking and Learning for European Cities and Regions. From Research to Practice’, edited by Nicola Francesco Dotti. Here … Knowledge, Policymaking and Learning for European Cities and Regions. From Research to Practice

How do new technological developments influence security in Europe? What role do drones, artificial intelligence and social media play in contemporary European society and security? And what to expect from recent trends in European Union’s (EU) security policy such as plans to fund defence research? These were some of the questions addressed at the workshop … Making Making sense of changing relationships between technology, security and society in Europe

Martina Vukasovic While analysis of higher education policy has been the hallmark of the higher education research field, questions concerning the politics of higher education have not been considered in and of themselves to the same extent (but see Jungblut, 2015, 2016). This is contrast to the still growing political salience of higher education (Busemeyer, … A spotlight on higher education politics

What role do universities play in regional development? How university roles in ‘periphery’ differ from university roles in ‘the core’? What are similarities and differences between universities in Northern and Central Europe? These are some of the questions addressed in a new book Higher Education and Regional Development: Tales from Northern and Central Europeedited by … Higher Education and Regional Development: Tales from Northern and Central Europe

Myroslava Hladchenko During the last decades, the development of the knowledge economy in Western societies has significantly changed both the roles played by universities and the relationship between the university, industry and government, resulting in the emergence of the Triple Helix (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff 2000) as one of the global models of world society (Meyer … Implementing the Triple Helix model in Ukraine: Means-ends decoupling at the state level