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Over the past decade, the term “world-class” has been used widely to describe how a university develops its capacity to compete in the global higher education marketplace. With the growth of competition between nations in our knowledgebased economy, the creation of world-class universities is becoming a national agenda item in developing as well as developed countries in Asia. Consequently, “policymakers in many countries have prioritized building research universities that would help their countries obtain a superior position in the global competition”, particularly in the East Asian region (Shin, 2009:669). Marginson (2010, please also see the previous chapter) has indicated that accelerated public investment in research and world-class universities has forged a unique culture, which he called the “Post-Confucian Model” in the East Asian region.
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Hou, YC., Ince, M., Chiang, CL. (2013). The Impact of Excellence Initiatives in Taiwan Higher Education. In: Wang, Q., Cheng, Y., Liu, N.C. (eds) Building World-Class Universities. Global Perspectives on Higher Education, vol 25. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-034-7_3
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