In most European countries, universities are fulfilling their missions of generating knowledge through research. In general, the scientific productivity of faculty is very high. However, in many countries, the other two key university activities – the transmission of knowledge to students through teaching, and knowledge transfer to the wider economic and social environment – do not have such favourable results. I believe that this is because the incentive systems for faculty benefit research more than knowledge transfer and teaching. In many university systems, faculty evaluation is based almost exclusively on the number and quality of scientific articles. These mechanisms are … Read more