Higher education is increasingly important to the labor market success of individuals and the prosperity of nations, yet, as this book shows, public funding for higher education is declining. It presents innovative approaches to increasing funding for universities through closer ties with business and through privatization of universities.

List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgments Notes on ContributorsIntroduction; Josef C. Brada 1. Competing for Public Resources: Higher Education and Academic Research in Europe. A Cross-Sectoral Perspective by Marek Kwiek 2. Restructuring of the Higher Educational System in Japan by Satoshi Mizobata and Masahiko Yoshii 3. Financing Universities and a Plea for Privatization by Johan Gooitzen Wissema 4. Student Loans: the Big Debate by Karina Ufert 5. The 2012/13 Reforms of Student Finances and Funding in England: the Implications for the Part-Time Undergraduate Higher Education Sector by Claire Callender 6. Higher Education Investment Fund - A New Approach for the Private Financing of Higher Education by Dieter Dohmen 7. University-Industry and Business Cooperation: Global Imperatives and Local Challenges. An Example from Portugal by Tatyana Koryakina, Pedro Nuno Teixeira, Cláudia S. Sarrico 8. Cooperation between a university and industry - good practices by Jakub Brdulak 9. Challenges in research: A strategic approach by Jan Andersen Index