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Between the ivory tower and the industrial laboratory: universities in the West German innovation system, 1945-1990
Zwischen Elfenbeinturm und Industrielabor: Universitäten im westdeutschen Innovationssystem, 1945-1990
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Abstract "The article provides an evaluation of the role of universities for the West German innovation system. It considers both research and education. On the whole, the balance is mixed. The higher education system, although in principle clinging to the ideals of Humboldt, was flexible enough to accommoda... view more
"The article provides an evaluation of the role of universities for the West German innovation system. It considers both research and education. On the whole, the balance is mixed. The higher education system, although in principle clinging to the ideals of Humboldt, was flexible enough to accommodate rapidly growing student numbers in the 1960s and 70s. Research was not driven out of universities, but universities lost ground in the competition with extra-mural research institutes. The links between universities and industry were stronger in the 1950s and 1960s than in the 1970s and 1980s. Efforts at improving knowledge transfer since the 1970s can be seen as attempts to make up for loosening informal ties. An assessment of the contribution of universities to labor productivity casts doubt on the assumption that a shortage of human capital acted as a break an economic development." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
Federal Republic of Germany; university; university research; innovation research; economic development (on national level); economic history; history of science; student; female student; historical development; program of study; theory-practice; technical college; reform; technology transfer; funding; research facility; network; enterprise; institute of technology
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
University Education
Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
Method
empirical; quantitative empirical; historical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 254-279
Journal
Historical Social Research, 37 (2012) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.37.2012.2.254-279
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed