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Reinventing Greatness

Responding to Urgent Global-Level Responsibilities and Critical University-Level Priorities

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In this chapter I reflect on the contemporary significance of knowledge institutions—comprising universities, science and research councils, industry research centres, and particularly research universities—for both emerging and established economies and for the world as a whole, but with particular reference to Africa, and South Africa in particular.

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    Ihron Rensburg

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Rensburg, I. (2017). Reinventing Greatness. In: Cross, M., Ndofirepi, A. (eds) Knowledge and Change in African Universities. African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-842-6_2

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