Welcome to CSC and KTH

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Welcome to CSC and KTH

• KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology
  Excellence in Education, Research and Innovation

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Professor Anders Flodström, President

• Professor Anders Flodström, the President of KTH.
  He received his PhD at Linköping University in
  1975. He became a Professor in Physics at KTH in
  1985. President of Linköping University in 1995
  and of KTH in 1998.

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KTH Schools From 2005

• School of Architecture and the Built Environment
• School of Biotechnology
• School of Computer Science and Communication
• School of Electrical Engineering
• School of Industrial Engineering and Management
• School of Information and Communication
  Technology
• School of Chemical Science and Engineering
• School of Engineering Sciences
• School of Technology and Health

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All Universities will in the Future be
Comprehensive

• Comprehensive Disciplinary
• Comprehensive Thematic

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Brief History of Universities

• Innocentius VII
• Humboldt
• Industrial Revolution and Napoleon
• Science Revolution
• Computer Revolution
• Communication Revolution
• Dream Revolution

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Trends in Society

• The New Product is the King
• Whos is the Seller and who is the Buyer
• Communication creates New Paradigms

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Trends in Industry

• The consequences of the Knowledge Society
  Global Companies and Global Universities
• Integration hardware, software, content and
  service
• Irland, Eastern Europé, Korea, China and India

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Trends Higher Education

• Globalization
• Harmonization
• Competition
• WTO
• Ivy Leauge
• Ranking

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Why Now?

• Mass Education 50
• Student Mobility - Culture
• Competition
• Value for Money
• Management

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Value Chain

• Evaluation
• Accreditation
• Ranking

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One Truth Among Many

• Culture or Objectives
• UK and Sweden
• China and Nobel Syndrome
• Humboldt?

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Why?

• Governance
• Stakeholders
• Students
• Media

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A New Mission

• A New University Concept
• Industrial Renewal
• Local, regional, national and global innovation
  system have become a corner stone for new
  industries
• The Good University
• The Tower is replaced by a Market how to find
  the Peace to think while selling on a Market