CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Orosz, Kata |
|---|---|
| Title | Assessing the role of higher education policy in the Hungarian national innovation strategy: Status quo, shortcomings and ways out |
| Summary | The funding of basic scientific research in universities is a public policy issue that lies at the crossroads of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy and higher education policy. Although there is a vivid discussion in Hungary about the need for continuing the reform of higher education finance and an equally vivid discussion about the role of basic research among other priorities of the STI strategy of the country, these two discourses are largely disconnected from each other. In the first analytical part of my thesis I investigate the causes of this disconnect and make a case for the need of dialogue between the two discourses. The call for dialogue is justified by presenting the challenge that the issue of funding basic scientific research in universities poses for both policy fields. The second analytical part of my thesis is an attempt to start the dialogue between the two discourses. I present arguments from both the STI policy and higher education policy discourses. Arguments are selected on the basis of their relevance to the issue of funding basic scientific research in universities and they are presented with the help of an analytical tool that I have designed specifically for this exercise. In a more refined version, the tool has the potential of facilitating dialogue between scholars and policy makers concerned with issues of Hungarian higher education policy and STI policy. |
| Supervisor | Matei, Liviu |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/orosz_katalin.pdf |
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