Anchoring globalization in Hong Kong's research universities: Network agents, institutional arrangements, and brain circulation

Anchoring globalization in Hong Kong's research universities: Network agents, institutional arrangements, and brain circulation

• Postiglione, Gerard A. Centre of Research on Education in China, University of Hong Kong

Studies in Higher Education, 38(3), 345-366, 2013

Abingdon, Great Britain

Routledge

2013

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QE Post-Secondary Education
• P Social Context of Education
  • PA History of Hong Kong Education

Research University Anchored Globalization Network Agents Enabling Framework Managed innovation Productivity

• Hong Kong

• 1980s
• 1990-1997.6
• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

International competition drives research universities to find ways to anchor globalization for academic productivity and innovation through cross-border collaboration. This article examines the case of pre-and post-colonial Hong Kong and how its universities transited from undergraduate institutions to highly ranked research universities within 30 years. While this is attributed to an enabling environment of institutional autonomy, open borders and cross-cultural capacity, a case study of one research university points to the role played in all of Hong Kong's universities by network agents, institutional arrangements, and brain circulation to recruit and retain international scholars and scientists. While this has strengthened capacity, it cannot be sustained without indigenous academic leadership to ensure that globalization is anchored in local culture. The article makes the case that the Hong Kong model already studied by research universities on the Chinese mainland, is generalizable as a cosmopolitan model for developing countries.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 03075079

• 10.1080/03075079.2013.773605

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2014-05-29