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 …

Research and innovation policy aims to boost research output and university-industry
collaboration (UIC) in part to allow firms access to leading scientific knowledge. As part of …

Grounded in key sociological theory on the concepts of boundaries, power and control, this
text addresses the question of whether the university is thriving or merely surviving. Using a …

The notion of grand challenges has become popular in research governance to support the
allocation of research funding to societally beneficial topics. This article illustrates the …

The study presented here, theoretically framed at the crossroads of sociocultural and
decolonial perspectives, draws attention to the sudden proliferation of two specific …

The paper discusses the case of research and the organization of language issues related
to bilingualism and diversity education as specific instances of a dominating dichotomy. It …

Recent years have seen an increasing institutionalisation of the regional mission of
universities, coinciding with mergers of institutions from different regions to form large multi …

Abstract Ideas encapsulated in the “Linguistic-Turn” drew attention away from mental
experiences towards linguistic behavior. Many newer (often overlapping) turn-positions …

This chapter focuses on the Third Mission of universities as a concept or metaphor that
bridges the social and cultural worlds of academic institutions and the public. In addition to …

Individual academic scientists engage in various collaborations through their involvement in
both regional and extra-regional networks. However, little is known about how these …