Scientific Development and Higher Education: The Case of Newly Industrializing Nations
This is the first book to provide detailed analysis of the relationship between higher education and scientific research in key Third World countries. Focusing on four of the most successful of the newly industrializing countries—Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore—the authors examine the intersection between outstanding economic development in these four countries and the higher education and research establishments they have developed. The study combines careful analysis of the current status of scientific research in higher education with detailed ethnographic case studies of scientific work.

Based upon a two-year research effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the study presents a multifaceted approach to the subject, evaluating for each country: the organization of the universities and other scientific institutions; the scientists and administrators who work in these institutions; the research productivity and the relationship of basic research to applied uses in industry and commerce; the interactions of these institutions with scholars from Western Europe, Japan, and North America. The authors demonstrate that the nations under study are rapidly building a sophisticated scientific infrastructure and clearly recognize the importance of science for development. The book concludes with an enlightening discussion of how scientists publish their findings in these countries.

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Scientific Development and Higher Education: The Case of Newly Industrializing Nations
This is the first book to provide detailed analysis of the relationship between higher education and scientific research in key Third World countries. Focusing on four of the most successful of the newly industrializing countries—Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore—the authors examine the intersection between outstanding economic development in these four countries and the higher education and research establishments they have developed. The study combines careful analysis of the current status of scientific research in higher education with detailed ethnographic case studies of scientific work.

Based upon a two-year research effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the study presents a multifaceted approach to the subject, evaluating for each country: the organization of the universities and other scientific institutions; the scientists and administrators who work in these institutions; the research productivity and the relationship of basic research to applied uses in industry and commerce; the interactions of these institutions with scholars from Western Europe, Japan, and North America. The authors demonstrate that the nations under study are rapidly building a sophisticated scientific infrastructure and clearly recognize the importance of science for development. The book concludes with an enlightening discussion of how scientists publish their findings in these countries.

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Scientific Development and Higher Education: The Case of Newly Industrializing Nations

Scientific Development and Higher Education: The Case of Newly Industrializing Nations

Scientific Development and Higher Education: The Case of Newly Industrializing Nations

Scientific Development and Higher Education: The Case of Newly Industrializing Nations

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This is the first book to provide detailed analysis of the relationship between higher education and scientific research in key Third World countries. Focusing on four of the most successful of the newly industrializing countries—Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore—the authors examine the intersection between outstanding economic development in these four countries and the higher education and research establishments they have developed. The study combines careful analysis of the current status of scientific research in higher education with detailed ethnographic case studies of scientific work.

Based upon a two-year research effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the study presents a multifaceted approach to the subject, evaluating for each country: the organization of the universities and other scientific institutions; the scientists and administrators who work in these institutions; the research productivity and the relationship of basic research to applied uses in industry and commerce; the interactions of these institutions with scholars from Western Europe, Japan, and North America. The authors demonstrate that the nations under study are rapidly building a sophisticated scientific infrastructure and clearly recognize the importance of science for development. The book concludes with an enlightening discussion of how scientists publish their findings in these countries.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780275932640
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/26/1989
Pages: 406
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.94(d)
Lexile: 1470L (what's this?)

About the Author

PHILIP G. ALTBACH is Professor and Director of the Comparative Education Center, State University of New York at Buffalo.

CHARLES H. DAVIS is Science Advisor in the Science Council of Canada, Ottawa.

THOMAS O. EISEMON is Professor and Director of the Center for Cognitive and Ethnographic Studies, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

S. GOPINATHAN is Head of the Department of Comparative Studies, Institute of Education, Singapore.

H. STEVE HSIEH is Associate Director General of the Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China.

SUNGHO LEE is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

PANG ENG FONG is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management National University of Singapore.

JASBIR SARJIT SINGH is Dean of the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Higher Education and Scientific Development
Higher Education and Scientific Development: The Promise of Newly Industrialized Countries
Higher Education and Research Environments in Korea
Scientific Personnel, Research Environments and Higher Education in Malaysia
Public Policy, Research Environment and Higher Education in Singapore
University Education and Research in Taiwan
Case Studies of the Academic Research Environment
Research and Productivity in the Malaysian University: A Case Study of the Department of Botany, University of Malaya
Faculty Research Attitudes and Practices: The Case of an Electrical Engineering Department in Korea
Scientific Research in the Botany Department at the National University of Singapore: A Case Study
The Scientific Research Environment in Taiwan
Patterns of Scientific Productivity
Publication Strategies of Scientists in Four Peripheral Asian Scientific Communities: Some Issues in the Measurement and Interpretation of Non-Mainstream Science
Index

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