In recent years, there has been increasing pressure on Universities to shift from focusing
primarily on teaching and performing research, and to add an equivocal Third Mission (TM) …

In modern, knowledge-based societies, universities play an increasingly important role in
achieving economic growth and social progress. Their traditional roles and missions are …

Globally, debates on the notion of a third set of activities aimed at linking higher education
institutions more closely with surrounding society are not new. In the last decade or so, calls …

The aim of this article is to analyse the “Third Mission”(TM) of universities within Nordic
countries and universitieś approach to implementing the mission into their strategy. The …

Purpose–Over the past 20 years public policy has sought to promote and formalise the socio‐
economic role of universities under the auspices of the so called “third mission”. The …

Traditionally, universities have focused on two missions: teaching and research. While the
universities still fulfill these missions, a third mission has been added: university research …

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An invisible revolution, known as the third mission, is claimed to be occurring within
universities. Accordingly, the canonical missions associated with research and teaching …

The aim of this article is to reflect upon the emergence of the 'third mission'of universities as
a critical (but not new) dimension of university activities. It recalls the role of our changing …

During the last two decades or so universities around the world have been subjected to
unprecedented exogenous pressures for change (Boden et al. 2004). These pressures are …