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We have, amongst our colleagues here present the representatives of at least eight national research systems, each of which has its own specificities, ways of working, priorities and what, for lack of imagination, I will call its political siting. Certainly, we may reckon on certain common origins namely that in varying degrees our research systems were influenced—some directly, others in a more meandering fashion—by the seminal thoughts of Wilhelm Freiherr von Humboldt. How we have chosen to interpret them and how far we have moved beyond them, makes us very different creatures though we live in the same zoo and perhaps even share the same intellectual territory.
Guy Neuve But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd Chariot hurrying near And yonder all before us lie Vast deserts of Eternity.
—“To his Coy Mistress” Andrew Marvell 1621–1678
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Neave, G. (2006). On Time and Fragmentation: Sundry Observations on Research, the University and Politics from a Waveringly Historical Perspective. In: Blückert, K., Neave, G., Nybom, T. (eds) The European Research University. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10079-5_6
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