Innovation & Impact Summit

Both sides talk about maintaining the fine balance between university neutrality and delivering on private research investments 

Artificial intelligence experts discuss the role of government, universities and tech companies in making sure AI has a positive impact on society 

US university president tells THE summit that institutions need to ‘rethink’ their operations

YS Chi claims publisher’s shift to recognise research quality over quantity left a void that has been filled by others happy to publish insubstantial work

Bin Yang tells THE summit that Chinese universities lack ‘original, innovative ideas’

Former ETH Zurich president tells THE summit there has been a ‘huge inflation’ in university enrolments, coupled with a ‘substantial mismatch between what universities teach and what society needs’

Universities around the world can participate in new ranking based on UN Sustainable Development Goals 

New league table will be first to measure global universities’ success in delivering on UN targets

League table may include metrics on university spin-off companies and research publications co-authored with industry

Indu Shahani speaks to Times Higher Education at the 2017 THE Innovation & Impact Summit

The serial entrepreneur speaks to Times Higher Education at the 2017 THE Innovation and Impact Summit

The vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong speaks to Times Higher Education at the 2017 THE Innovation and Impact Summit

Henry Lane Fox speaks to Times Higher Education at the 2017 THE Innovation and Impact Summit in Hong Kong

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Greg Simon, former executive director of the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force, claims universities are resistant to change

Vice-president says universities must convince researchers that journal articles are not the only way to disseminate knowledge

Candace Johnson says universities should cultivate a belief in their students that they ‘can do everything’

Philanthropist and entrepreneur Charles Chen Yidan says today’s education systems are ‘not suited to tomorrow’s society’

Ahead of the THE Innovation and Impact Summit, École Polytechnique president Jacques Biot urges universities to prepare for ‘Industry 4.0’

Ahead of the THE Innovation and Impact Summit, speaker Max Lu looks at the challenges of university-industry partnership

The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by the editorial team

We examine citation data to get an idea of the most exciting and potentially ground-breaking research topics

US scholar argues that academics punch above their weight in key discoveries

THE analysis shines a light on institutions that have thought outside the box on research collaboration and funding

Event will explore university-industry collaboration, curiosity-led research and whether institutions can create entrepreneurs