Academic Partnerships in the Age of Globalization

Anatoly Oleksiyenko, Ph.D. (Toronto)Higher Education/Policy, Administration

and Social SciencesFaculty of Education, HKU

International Partnerships: Contextual Level

• Global markets– Global economic competencies and mobility– Declining travel and technology cost per unit– Transnational education– Global “positional goods” (Marginson 2007)

• Global challenges– Health threats– Poverty and illiteracy– Pollution and climate

International partnerships: Institutional Level

Resource Asymmetries Cumulative advantages

Finance, sponsorship supportEpistemic norms Legitimization by stakeholdersTransaction and efficiency costsOrganizational missions and strategies

Cost-sharing Complementary strengths Managing the complexity and scale Delivery time in tech/labor intensive KE and Innovation learning

Partnership Policies and Contextualization:

Chinese Societies of EA

• HK, Singapore, Macau, Taiwan, and Mainland China

• Resource asymmetries and cumulative advantages

• Strategic partnerships and academic research

Partnership Policies and Contextualization: A Conceptual

Frame• Strategic and multi-stakeholder interdependencies

• Clark’s (1983) triangle of coordination: market, state and academic profession

• “Glonacal” (global+national+local) agency (Marginson and Rhoades 2002)

• Global higher education matrix and the governance of research internationalization (Jones and Oleksiyenko 2010)

Hong Kong’s Case StudyInternationalization Intra-nationalization

Affinities ✓ Global academic networks ✓ transportation and trade flows ✓ studies abroad as upward mobility capital ✓ bi-lingual and intercultural skills ✓entrepreneurial behaviors ✓ academic freedom✓ immigration regulations

✓Cultural identity ✓ historical and relational heritage ✓ economic interests ✓ entrepreneurial opportunities✓ social networking ✓ territorial proximity

Asymmetries ✓ Global and regional ranking systems✓ institutional ambitions and capacities ✓ linguistic and cultural differences

✓ Political systems ✓ funding patterns ✓ academic governance ✓ scholarly norms ✓ competition ✓immigration regulations ✓ language/dialect issues

Questions

paoleks@hku.hk