Bìznes Inform (Mar 2018)
The Research University as a Social and Economic Phenomenon
Abstract
The study rethinks the role of research university as a social and economic phenomenon. It has been determined that the phenomenon of research university consists in a versatile disclosure of innovation potential of talented personalities, capable of scientific inquiry. 45 literary sources, representing the opinions of authoritative scholars of the international level in the sphere of creation and development of research universities in different time periods, are systematized and analyzed. As determined by the author, research university had evolved and acquired new forms through the centuries, but its fundamental importance in the development of society remained unchanged, having no alternative. The development of 21st century is characterized by rapid expansion of digital technologies and, at the same time, there’s a new era of trials and transformations for the university phenomenon. Those universities, which lead the processes of development, implementation and wide use of digital technologies, can expect a successful strategic perspective along with consistent development. Regarding those which ignore digital technologies, the author notes that they will be bound to technological backwardness and gradual curtailment of their activities.
