About this Book

The book studies transformations of European universities in the context
of globalization and Europeanization, the questioning of the
foundations of the «Golden Age» of the Keynesian welfare state, public
sector reforms, demographic changes, the massification and
diversification of higher education, and the emergence of knowledge
economies. Such phenomena as academic entrepreneurialism and diversified
channels of knowledge exchange in European universities are linked to
transformations of the state and changes in public sector services. The
first, contextual part of the book studies the changing state/university
relationships, and the second, empirically-informed part draws from
several recent large-scale comparative European research projects.