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University-Industry and Business Cooperation: Global Imperatives and Local Challenges — An Example from Portugal

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Economic aspects of knowledge have become increasingly important in the era of globalization and international competition on the one hand and in the context of financial austerity on the other hand. In a rather complicated environment of slowing economic growth, a rapidly aging population and increased unemployment, European universities are seen as engines of economic development and problem solving.

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  1. Arizona State University, USA

    Josef C. Brada

  2. Lazarski University, Poland

    Wojciech Bienkowski

  3. Hitotsubashi University, Japan

    Masaaki Kuboniwa

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Koryakina, T., Teixeira, P.N., Sarrico, C.S. (2015). University-Industry and Business Cooperation: Global Imperatives and Local Challenges — An Example from Portugal. In: Brada, J.C., Bienkowski, W., Kuboniwa, M. (eds) International Perspectives on Financing Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137549143_8

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