Transforming academic globalization into globalization for all

Abstract

Driving innovation and continuous improvement with regard to ecological, environmental and human sustainability is essential for win–win globalization. That calls for research on strategic and monitoring planning to manage globalization and technological and scientific change. This paper describes a new basic function of the university institution ‘to teach students to be critical about any kind of information’ and presents perspectives, efforts and three proposals for the establishment of a system for managing globalization and technological and scientific change.

Keywords:

• Bastion of globalization
• Globalization management
• Trans-disciplinary/integrated knowledge
• ‘Hybrid’ university structure

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M. F. Ramalhoto

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