The spin-off of elite universities in non-competitive, undifferentiated higher education systems

An empirical simulation in Italy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4096500
AutoresGiovanni Abramo (0000-0003-0731-3635, National Research Council, autor correspondente), Ciriaco Andrea D''Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo (0000-0002-6977-6611, University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Ano2014
Volume39
Fascículo7
Páginas1270-1289
Data de publicação2014-08-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03075079.2013.801426
OpenAlexW2144599295
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas21

Higher education systems featuring intense competition have developed world-class universities, capable of attracting top professors and students and considerable public–private funding. This does not occur in non-competitive systems, where highly talented faculty and students are dispersed across all institutions. In such systems, the authors propose the budding of spin-off universities, staffed by the migration of top scientists from the entire public research system. This article illustrates the proposal through an example: the spin-off of a new university in Rome, Italy staffed with the best professors from the three current public city universities. Such a faculty would offer top national research productivity, a magnet to attract the other critical ingredients of a world-class university: talented students, abundant resources and visionary governance

Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Elite · Higher education · Management · Political science · Productivity · Public relations · Sociology · University system · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Learning Practices · Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis · Public Administration