Higher education funding reform and university-industry links in developing countries: The case of Thailand

Higher Education

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 543-556

  Schiller, Daniel ^a   Liefner, Ingo ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Commercialisation; Developing countries; Funding reform; Resource allocation; Thailand; University industry links

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548435605     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-006-9011-y     Document Type: Article

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