Neuroliderazgo

Capitulo 12
Muchas universidades pierden su enfoque estratégico a largo plazo, haciendo breves errores psicológicos a largo plazo. Europea y la educación superior de los EE.UU. (HE) y organizacionesde investigación han sido sometidos a un proceso de profundas transformaciones en las últimas décadas y para aumentar su rendimiento del capital intelectual.
The level of a country´s state ofcompetitivity is directly related to its level of intelectual capital performarce and the new focus is threefold.
1- Increasing emphasis on the multi- function of the Higher Education institutions: Anintensification of industry – academia relationships has added to the important traditional functions of universities: knowledge generation (research) and knowledge transmission (teaching). Higherpriority is now given to their social dimension, getting involved in social exclusion problems, gender issues and environmental protection, just to name a few (EAU, 2005, 2007). This refers to activitieswhereby universities address social welfare needs and private or public economic objectives (Molas- Gallart, 2005 ). Although the latter concept is now a major issue in the HE debate , the notion isstill very ambiguous and differs greathy from one university to another, depending on the configuration of activities, the territorial embedding and the country´s institutional framework (Ladero, 2007).Teaching and research are still important objectives, but their scope is much larger. Teaching includes the establishment of lifelong learning mechanisms and the provision of specialized courses tocover a wide variety of IC demands. Curiosity- driven research is as ever very important but research aiming at providing short- term practical solutions to all types of problems is also a must.Innovation is central to IC competitiveness and growth, and universities are committed to improving innovation capacities; the ability to work with different partners is thus essential to create the...