Realizing the growing importance of universities in Knowledge Transfer and innovation-centric entrepreneurship, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) actively encourages government-funded universities in Hong Kong to work with the market and industry, as well as wider society to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship. This article aims to examine the changing university governance in Hong Kong particularly when universities go beyond the academia to work with industries and businesses to promote innovation-centric entrepreneurialism. It begins with a conceptual framework for analyzing multiple sectoral collaborations for entrepreneurship with a focus on the role of universities. It will discuss how the HKSAR copes with the main challenges of university governance by adopting policies and measures to creating a hybridized ecosystem so as to embrace cross-sectoral collaborations. The article concludes by critical reflections on changing university governance in Hong Kong when responding to the quest for entrepreneurial universities.
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Despite the trendsetting of East Asian HPES, education policy commentary and literature on this region remains rather underdeveloped and predictable. In Comparing High-Performing Education Systems: Understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Dr Charlene Tan moves scholarship on East Asian HPES in a new, sorely needed direction. This review essay of Comparing High-Performing Education Systems describes the guiding conceptual framework of the book and summarizes the book, chapter-by-chapter. This review essay also comments on two striking issues – the explanatory power of Confucian habitus, and the intersectionality of performativity, Confucianism, and neoliberalism. The aim in this review essay is to both celebrate the boldness of Comparing High Performing Systems and offer questions to further enrich the employment of Confucianism as a conceptual and analytical tool to examine education policies, processes, and outcomes in East Asian systems.
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Purpose: This paper aims to examine the strategic role of world-class universities and the international academic profession in the regionalisation project of China's Greater Bay Area (GBA). It illustrates the way in which the case of the GBA regionalisation project offers a potentially rich empirical example for adding contextual understanding to the literature of the Triple Helix model, which largely draws on inductive theorising from western successful innovation cases. The GBA regionalisation processes will provide a wealth of empirical cases for identifying circumstances that address tensions and increase interactions in the Triple Helix relationship of university, government and industry for fostering knowledge synergies.Design/methodology/approach: Focusing on the case of Hong Kong, it engages in policy and stakeholder analysis and addresses three key research questions: What are the competitive advantages and potential strategic role of Hong Kong's universities and academic profession in the regionalisation of innovation systems in the GBA? What is the role of the governments in the regionalisation processes? What are the expected opportunities and challenges offered by the GBA policy initiatives for the future development of Hong Kong's universities and academic profession?Findings: Hong Kong, given its status as an international finance centre and global city with intense internationalisation and established judicial system operated by the rule of law, will contribute to the GBA development by leveraging on its edge in scientific research and development and international networks of academic research through the world-class academic profession. Scientists and researchers in the city, possessing the competitive advantages of basic research and international partnerships, are highly regarded by the central government. The engagement of Hong Kong's scientific talents, can play an important role in achieving China's aspiration of becoming a global technology power.Research

粵港澳大灣區項目,在針對教育方面的內容,皆在十九大報告、習近平視察廣東重要講話、兩會中所提及並有所強調。本文主要闡述了灣區在教育建設方面的重要性及其意義,並結合國外三大灣區的特點,對粵港澳大灣區教育建設提出各方面改進措施及建議。

高校創新創業教育是我國建設創新型國家、培養和造就具有國際水平的戰略科技人才的重要舉措。自2012年香港城市大學開展"重探索、求創新"課程教學改革以來,在教學質量、學生就業和學生創新競賽獲獎方面都有較大幅度的提升。在改革的過程中,香港城市大學探索出建立上下雙向互動、契合辦學目標、注重課外實踐創新、重視結合專業知識創新和開展跨學科合作,以及保障學生知識產權等創新創業教育課程改革的實踐路徑。相比之下,內地高校也應明確創新創業教育的課程教學體系和培養目標,加大創新創業支持服務力度,搭建創新平台,制定學校知識產權保護條例,為建設創新型國家添磚加瓦、貢獻力量。

《粵港澳大灣區發展規劃綱要》強調推動粵港澳高校教育合作發展,這為廣東高校留學生教育發展帶來新一輪戰略機遇期。在"一帶一路"倡議的大背景下,文章結合當前廣東高校留學生教育發展的現狀,分析了粵港澳大灣區建設下廣東高校發展留學生教育的優勢,立足區域優勢互補的原則,立足高校合作共贏的理念,提出一系列切實可行的發展對策。以期廣東高校能牢牢把握這次契機,發揮政策優勢,謀求自身發展,推動留學生教育發展,提升高校整體國際化辦學水平。

從當前城市群的布局和產業優勢來看,粵港澳大灣區應當堅持多中心的發展定位。作為為城市和產業提供主要人才支撐的粵港澳大灣區高等教育集群,其發展路徑應當與大灣區多中心的發展定位相符。多中心的發展定位對高等教育集群的挑戰主要集中於兩大層面——創新與協同。融合創新理論主張以多要素的"組合"達至創新,粵港澳大灣區高等教育集群應當發揮"區域""人才培養""社會服務""體制機制"等要素的組合優勢,走融合創新之路應對挑戰。一是推進"區域+體制機制"的融合創新,高等教育配合區域分工進行錯位發展,並建立共同體合作機制,支撐多中心的城市群發展定位。二是推進"區域+人才培養+社會服務"的融合創新,支撐多中心的產業群發展定位:高水平大學走"開放式創新"之路,主要與珠江東岸的科創業和金融業同頻共振;應用型本科和高職院校走產教融合創新之路,主要為珠江西岸制造業提供堅實支持。

建設粵港澳大灣區是習近平總書記親自謀劃、親自部署和親自推動的國家戰略,高等教育領域的開放協同創新發展將是粵港澳大灣區建設題中之義。該組筆談匯聚灣區高等教育建設謀劃之思,提出如下觀點:做實深港教育合作,建立法規保障機制,成立實體協調組織機構,基於全球化、智能化要求推進灣區教育開放與合作;著眼四個方面開展灣區高等教育發展定位與戰略研究;在粵港澳大學聯盟的基礎上打造各種專業子聯盟,拓展聯盟高校合作內容,規範灣區高等學校合作模式,實施大學集群戰略;建立"粵港澳高等教育大灣區協同創新發展試驗區",組建兩大共同體,構建統籌協調、利益共享、風險防範三大機制;理工科大學需緊密對接灣區制造業發展需求,服務、支撐區域產業尤其是制造業轉型升級;構建"粵港澳大灣區高等教育樞紐",加大並優化灣區高等教育資源投入,充分整合粵港澳三地建設,提高對外開放水平,推動高等教育創新發展。

隨著粵港澳大灣區建設的深入開展,粵港澳大灣區高等教育迎來了融合發展的新機遇。粵港澳大灣區建設是推動內地與港澳全面合作的重要支點,是我國實施區域協調發展戰略,推動建設現代化經濟體系的重要舉措,亦是我國推動形成全面開放新格局的重要部署。粵港澳大灣區高等教育的發展與合作現狀,為高等教育融合發展奠定了現實基礎。從粵港澳大灣區高等教育未來的融合發展路徑來看,應秉持以融合統領發展、以創新驅動發展、以開放促進發展的基本原則,進一步加強頂層設計、進行制度創新、促進高等教育與產業的協同、提升國際化水平。

粵港澳大灣區已上升為國家戰略,高等教育融合發展是提高灣區軟實力的重要途徑。粵港澳三地高等教育具有互補性與區位性,高等教育合作積累了許多成功經驗。但三地高等教育空間異質性明顯,高等教育融合發展存在一些障礙。要推動灣區高等教育融合發展,就必須加強頂層設計、國民教育、戰略規劃等強制性制度同構;實施教育聯盟、大學集群等模仿性制度同構;建立合作平台、拓展合作模式、健全制度保障等規範性制度同構。