Academic Partnerships in the Age of Globalization Anatoly Oleksiyenko, Ph.D. (Toronto) Higher Education/Policy, Administration and Social Sciences Faculty 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 AsymmetriesCumulative advantages Finance, sponsorship support Epistemic norms Legitimization by stakeholders Transaction and efficiency costs Organizational 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 Study InternationalizationIntra-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

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