Universities going global?

Going Global

Editorial: Going global.

‘A description of the organisms found in South Russian sour milk products is not new to Russian literature. For example, fermented milk from the district of Don has been examined, and it has been found that both lactic and alcoholic fermentation products are present... A preliminary examination of Kuban fermented milk (Kuban being adjacent to the district of Don) showed that its bacteriological...

Going Global with Personas

The persona method is widely used and commonly described both in scientific literature and in case-based blogs. Most often the descriptions point to a local context with local user groups and it is difficult to find writings on use of the method in an international context and in globally distributed teams. This paper reports from a qualitative study conducted in 2012/13 within 13 Danish compan...

The global production frontier of universities

This paper provides first micro-level evidence of the global university production frontier, allowing to estimate technical efficiencies of 273 top research universities across 29 countries between 2007 and 2009. Exploiting comparable international data improves the estimation of the production technology, allows to assess the distance of individual countries to the global frontier and enables ...

Scrambling for Africa? Universities and global health.

The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) has emerged as a major voice within the fi eld of academic global health. Established in 2008 in San Francisco, the group’s membership includes many of the most prestigious universities in the USA, and its leadership is well connected to US policy makers and funding agencies. On Sept 19–21, 2010, the Consortium convened its third meeting a...