Higher Education Governance and Academic Entrepreneurialism in East Asia: The Two Episodes of Hong Kong and Macau

Abstract

This paper attempts to depict the diverse agendas of Hong Kong and Macau in response to the global trend of “academic entrepreneurialism”. It contains a review about the rise of entrepreneurialism in Asian higher education. It will then chronicle the policy-driven development of Hong Kong higher education, followed by a discussion about Macau higher education which is comparatively more market-driven. In the concluding section there is a brief analysis between the two episodes of changing higher education governance in the two East Asian cities, in terms of their socio-political circumstances, development of higher education, and the position of their higher learning institutions in the global academy.