Competition among universities
Invited Session: Monday 10th June, 15:30-16:30
Theme
Scientific research is inherently competitive. Not only researchers, but also universities compete - among others they compete for students, researchers, funding, and reputation. The dynamic interplay of overlapping and interdependent competitive processes in which universities are involved gives rise to complex and hard-to-predict patterns of outcomes. In this session, we will discuss initial findings from a large-scale interdisciplinary research project exploring the multidimensional nature of competition among universities and how it relates to scientific progress, technological innovation and the academic labor market. Based on these findings, some building blocks of an evolutionary economics of higher education will be proposed.
Organizer
Guido Buenstorf
Professor of Economics, University of Kassel. Researcher in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management of Intellectual Assets, University of Gothenburg. Visiting Professor at School of Business, Economics and Law: VPP 2016-2019 and 2019-2021.
Guido Buenstorf leads the Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Institute of Economics and is director and executive board member of the International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER). He holds a PhD in economics from Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Before joining the University of Kassel, he was research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Economics. From 2016 to 2021, Buenstorf was Visiting Professor at Gothenburg University, where he is a steering committee member of the Center on Knowledge-Intensive Innovation Ecosystems (U-GOT KIES).
His main research interests are
- the economics of science and innovation
- entrepreneurship research
- Regional economics
His work has been published in leading outlets including the Economic Journal, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, the Journal of Urban Economics and the Journal of Economic Geography.
