Higher education and economic development: the importance of building technological capabilities

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Higher education and economic development: the importance of building technological capabilities

Higher education and development has not been a priority of global policy or research funding in recent decades. Yet, since the millennium, Southern governments have become believers in the global knowledge economy and higher education enrolment growth has been phenomenal. In this paper we offer an...

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Main Authors:	Kruss, Glenda, McGrath, Simon, Petersen, Il-Haam, Gastrow, Michael
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2015
Subjects:	Higher Education Innovation Economic Development Evolutionary Economics
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28707/

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