Introduction
pp. 1-7
in: Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley (eds), The creative university, Berlin, Springer, 2013Abstract
Education and research have been transformed in the development of knowledge economies. The knowledge, learning and creative economies manifest the changing significance of intellectual capital and the thickening connections between on one hand economic growth, on the other hand knowledge, creativity (especially imagined new knowledge, discovery), the communication of knowledge, and the formation and spreading of creative skills in education.