In most European countries, the Nordic region included, higher education (HE) has undergone a profound transformation in the last couple of decades. This process is partly a result of substantial changes in society - such as declining birth rates, an ageing population and the rise of a global knowledge-based economy - in tandem with broad policy efforts aimed at modernising the public sector (Peters & Savoie, 1998) as a means of guaranteeing the future sustainability of the (Nordic) welfare state (Christiansen, Petersen, & Haave, 2005).
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Pinheiro, R., & Stensaker, B. (2014). Strategic actor-hood and internal transformation: The rise of the “quadruple-helix university”? In Global Challenges, Local Responses in Higher Education: The Contemporary Issues in National and Comparative Perspective (pp. 171–189). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-581-6_9
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