02143nas a2200217   4500008004100000020002200041245011700063210006900180250005600249260001800305490000700323520137600330653002101706653002801727653002201755653002901777100002101806700001301827700001801840856006701858       2021                        eng d  a978-3-030-76578-100aA Portuguese Tale on Knowledge-Based Society: Narrowing Bonds Between Higher Education and the Innovation System0 aPortuguese Tale on KnowledgeBased Society Narrowing Bonds Betwee  aT. Aarrevaara, M. Finkelstein, G. A. Jones, J. Jung  bSpringer Cham0 v223 a<p>Within the knowledge society framework, higher education has become a driving factor for democratizing and rising equality in societies and consequently stimulating economic development (Panitsidou et al., Procedia Soc &amp; Behav Sci, 46: 548–553, 2012). In Portugal, as elsewhere, higher education institutions (HEI) were expected to play a key role within the changing dynamics in the orientation of knowledge production and dissemination. Research and the national scientific system are closely connected to the higher education system, with knowledge production being mostly concentrated in universities, especially in public ones. In this context, HEIs are considered as a privileged locus of change framed by the knowledge society providing the new epistemological, ontological, and methodological logics as well as legitimacy for a new “political economy” of knowledge. However, this chapter has a double purpose. On the one hand, it intends to present an overview of the Portuguese higher education system and its relation to the research and innovation system. On the other hand, the paper seeks to analyze the contemporary conceptions of the “knowledge-based society” in the Portuguese state policies and HEI narratives, as well as the expected role assigned to academics in the new knowledge production, dissemination, and transfer systems.</p>
10aAcademic careers10aHigher education system10aInnovation policy10aResearch and development1 aCarvalho, Teresa1 aDiogo, S1 aSantiago, Rui  uhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-76579-8_15