The Changing Governance of Higher Education and Research

1. Introduction: The Changing Governance of PhD Education and Research - Multilevel Perspectives; Dorothea Jansen and Insa Pruisken.-Part I: Changing the Governance of PhD-Education - Effects on Research.-2. Composition and Performance of Research Training Groups; Birgit Unger, Kerstin Pull and Uschi Backes-Gellner.-3. Bringing Efficiency In? Time to the Doctorate in Research Training Groups and Traditional Doctoral Education; Andrea Kottmann.- 4. The Interplay of New Public Governance Dimensions and their Effects on Academic Outcomes - The Example of PhD Education in Economic Departments in Continental Europe, England and the US; Peter Schneider and Dieter Sadowski.-Part II: Changing the Governance of Science Systems and Effects on Research.-5. Turning Universities into Actors on Quasi-Markets: How New Public Management Reforms Affect Academic Research; Jürgen Enders, Barbara Kehm and Uwe Schimank.-6. Multilevel Dynamics in Universities in Changing Research Landscapes; Arie Rip and Tembile Kulati.-7. Consequences of the New Actorhood of German Universities and Research Organisations - Intended and Unintended Effects on Research; Dorothea Jansen, Regina von Görtz and Richard Heidler.-8. Institutions of Public Science and New Search Regimes; Andrea Bonaccorsi.-Part III: Europeanising Research and Research Funding.-9. The European Research Council - Best Practice in Research Funding? Thomas Groß and Remzi Karaalp.-10. Supporting Frontier Research, Which Institutions and Which Processes. Some Initial Considerations; Philippe Larédo.-11. Changing European Governance of Research: A Public Law Perspective; Arne Pilniok.-12. Technology Transfer - The Change of European Governance of Research from a Private Law Perspective; Christine Godt.-13. Summary and Conclusions: Dorothea Jansen and Insa Pruisken.-Index.

Dorothea Jansen ist Universitätsprofessorin am Lehrstuhl für die Soziologie der Organisation an der Deutschen Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer.