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Global Creation: Space, Mobility and Synchrony in the Age of the Knowledge Economy

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Global Creation discusses international mobility, higher education, global science, international research, cultural exchange and the role of portal cities as creative centres on the world's maritime circumference--and the effects of these on broader social and economic life.

Author(s): Simon Marginson, Peter Murphy, Michael A. Peters
Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2010

Language: English
City: New York
Tags: Creation creativity intellect intellectual knowledge higher education universities international mobility imagination enigma distance science political economy

1. Introduction: The Protean and the Global
2. The Enigma of Distance
3. Portal Power and Thalassic Imagination
4. The World Circumference
5. Space, Mobility and Synchrony in the Knowledge Economy
6. Making Space in Higher Education
7. Higher Education as a Global Field
8. The Rise of Global Science and the Emerging
Political Economy of International Research Collaborations
9. The Virtues of Openness in Higher Education
10. Cultural Exchange, Study Abroad and Discourse of the Other