Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Changing Universities and Their Changing Environments -- PART I: THE CHANGINGSTATE/UNIVERSITY RELATIONSHIPS IN EUROPE -- Chapter 1: A Panoramic View: The Growing Complexity of the Academic Enterprise in Europe -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Market mechanisms and new income-generating patterns -- 1.3. Conflicting demands, new stakeholders, and the teaching/research divide -- 1.4. Transforming institutions, transforming academics -- 1.5. Conclusions -- Chapter 2: The University and the State in a Global Age. Renegotiating the Traditional Social Contract in Europe? -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The Modern University and the Welfare State -- 2.3. The Modern University and the ModernNation-State -- 2.4. Conclusions -- Chapter 3: The University and the Welfare Statein Transition: Changing Public Services in a Wider Context -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The welfare state, globalization, and the public investment in higher education -- 3.3. Globalization and the public sector -- 3.4. The state's fiscal condition and competitors to higher education -- 3.5. Welfare state reforms, higher education reforms, and the privatization of public servicesin transition countries -- 3.6. Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Reforming Higher Education and Expanding the Regional Mission in the Contexts of the Postcommunist Transition, Accession, and Beyond -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Transnational actors and international agendas -- 4.3. The institutional change and the stylize dvisions of the university -- 4.4. The demand-absorbing growth and the demography-driven decline? -- 4.5. Knowledge production in Central European universities -- 4.6. The regional mission of the university. The case of transition economies -- 4.7. Conclusions.

PART IITOWARDS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE:ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURIALISMAND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGEIN EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES -- Chapter 5: Academic Entrepreneurialism vs. Changing Governance and Institutional Management Structures in European Universities -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. University governance and the European Commission on the role of universities in the knowledge economy -- 5.3. Academic entrepreneurialism and risk management -- 5.4. A clash of academic and managerial values? -- 5.5. Academic entrepreneurialism and collegiality -- 5.6. Academic entrepreneurialism, centralization, and decentralization -- 5.7. Academic entrepreneurialism spread across institutions -- 5.8. Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Academic Entrepreneurialism and Private Higher Education in Europe -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The diversified funding base: possible sources of income -- 6.3. The strengthened steering core -- 6.4. The extended developmental periphery -- 6.5. The stimulated academic heartland -- 6.6. The institution-wide, integrated entrepreneurial culture -- 6.7. Conclusions -- Chapter 7: Diversified Channels of Knowledge Exchange in European Universities: Major Parameters of University-Enterprise Partnerships -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The analytical framework -- 7.3. The leadership and the individual/institutional characteristics -- 7.4. Public subsidies and private donations in partnerships -- 7.5. The university-enterprise inter-sectoral staff mobility -- 7.6. A wider empirical context: partnerships and academic norms and values in 2011 -- 7.7. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Note on the Author.