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Academic Roles, Evaluation, and Development

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Developmental Universities in Inclusive Innovation Systems

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This chapter discusses the possibilities of fostering developmental universities. As a first step, it examines the actual role of universities in Innovation Systems. A main aspect of the relation between universities and society at large is the type and degree of autonomy that universities have; a notion of connected autonomy is proposed. Particular attention is given to describing prevailing academic evaluation systems, showing that they are detrimental from the point of view of Sustainable Human Development, and trying to understand why they are nevertheless kept in place. Some alternatives are suggested for elaborating metrics and evaluation systems that do not hamper but foster the contribution of universities to improving the quality of life for everybody.

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Arocena, R., Göransson, B., Sutz, J. (2018). Academic Roles, Evaluation, and Development. In: Developmental Universities in Inclusive Innovation Systems. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64152-2_8

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