Knowledge alchemy : models and agency in global knowledge governance /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Transnational Administration and Global Policy
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- Introduction
- Conjuncture of ranking and digitalization
- Policy diffusion and convergence
- Knowledge alchemy and conventional power
- Policy scripts, rankings and conventions of knowledge production
- Time, narratives and conventions
- Conclusions
- Part I Indicators, Data and Models of Global Knowledge Governance
- 2 Global Rankings of Good Governance and Higher Education
- Introduction
- Field development of global ranking
- Rankings of good governance
- Global university rankings
- World-class university, conventions and shifting strategies of higher education
- University Paris-Saclay: a Cambridge à la française or a university of the future?
- Conclusions
- 3 Human Capital and the Rise of the Global Talent Competition
- Introduction
- Time and place of innovation
- City rankings: cities as innovation hubs
- Global talent competition and converging metrics of competitiveness, innovation and education
- Global talent competition: human capital, mobility and innovation
- Human capital, artificial intelligence and talent competition
- Producers of global knowledge governance: the case of Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires and the Global Talent Competitiveness Index
- The Global Talent Competitiveness Index
- The Global Talent Competitiveness Index's advisory board
- Conclusions
- Part II Scripts, Imaginaries and Policy
- 4 Global Imaginaries of Knowledge Governance
- Introduction
- Global rankings and imaginaries of competitiveness, human capital and artificial intelligence
- 'The revolution': knowledge governance, digitization and automation
- The race for talent: open society and urbanity
- Regulation and role of government
- Imaginaries and limits of policy scripts
- From reaction to anticipation: the OECD's anticipatory innovation governance
- Anticipatory governance and the politics of future
- Conclusions
- 5 From the Medieval Scholar to the Global Flows of Academics: Exploring the Emergence, Evolution and Impact of the 'Talent' Imaginary
- Introduction
- Academic mobility in medieval Europe
- Academic mobility in the age of modern empires
- From the Great Wars to the global competition for talent
- Conceptualizing academic mobility as a lived experience
- Attracting and retaining foreign academic talents in practice: Singapore
- The making of Singapore as an attractive academic destination
- Moving away from Singapore: increased living expenses, no work-life balance
- What does the case of Singapore tell us about the 'global' flows of academics?
- Conclusions
- 6 Strategies and Policies for the Global Talent Competition
- Introduction
- The Europe of Knowledge