The Portuguese University : knowledge leverage towards innovation

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

Pinto, Maria Manuela (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Handbook of research on effective project management through the integration of knowledge and innovation

Pages: 466-490

ISBN: 978-1-4666-7537-7

Publisher: IGI Global

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Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00K-660

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7536-0.ch024

Abstract (EN): This chapter presents an evolutionary analysis, at the Portuguese and European levels, that features Higher Education centred on the University's Mission, the building and importance of National Innovation System, and related dynamics. The university should fulfil the fundamental role related with creation, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge and generate skills and key competences to respond to increasingly more complex problems in a rapidly changing environment, as well as to enable multidisciplinary approaches that are in the university's own and peculiar nature, and which is fostered by the relationships with the systems that drive the interaction with the target communities. Referring to the last quarter of the 20th century, the chapter outlines the emergence of the “Research University” in the context of the slow but progressive increase in value of Science and Technology and Research and Development, with the organization of the related National Systems in order to be able to foster innovation.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: Chapter 24