Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 10/2013

Latin America's New Knowledge Economy: Higher Education, Government, and International Collaboration

September 2013

Institute of International Education

Abstract

The last few decades have been a time of impressive growth and change for higher education in Latin America. Latin America's New Knowledge Economy reviews the policies, institutions, and programs that helped bring about these changes, as well as their outcomes in terms of access, workforce training, and research. In the book, leading scholars from Latin America in the U.S. explore key issues, including higher education’s role in advanced workforce development, trends in academic mobility and outcomes for brain circulation, and investment in the region by U.S. universities and corporations.