Internationalization of research and higher education: Emerging patterns of transformations

Abstract

This report represents the first publication of the 2002–2004 Strategic Insti-tute Programme (SIP) at NIFU. Internationalisation – of higher education, research and innovation – is the programme’s theme; it has received fund-ing from the Research Council of Norway. This report partly presents the overall themes and issues raised in the programme, and partly identifies the state-of-the-art in existing bodies of literature. There are three main themes. First, what major research questions should be posed and em-phasised with regard to the internationalisation of research, innovation and higher education? Second, what are the main theoretical puzzles and conceptual lenses that should be highlighted and analysed? Finally, what is the state-of-the-art in the empirical documentation of internatio-nalisation of the domains in question? The report adds value both by pos-ing vital questions, by highlighting theoretical puzzles and by giving sev-eral empirical synthesising analyses from different domains.