TY - BOOK ID - 74947741 TI - University adaptation in difficult economic times AU - Mattei, Paola AU - Oxford University Press. PY - 2014 SN - 9780199989393 9780190206383 0190206381 9780199989409 0199989400 0199989397 0199989419 9780199989416 PB - Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Universities and colleges KW - Education, Higher KW - Universités KW - Enseignement supérieur KW - Finance KW - Finance. KW - Finances UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74947741 AB - Despite the fact that universities are at the centre of knowledge creation and development, which itself is seen as one of the main engines of economic growth, public funding of higher education in most countries is not increasing or at least not increasing enough in real terms. This volume explores new funding schemes and incentives introduced in many European higher education systems, including competitive funding schemes for research under the name of excellence policies. ER -