Introduction: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Mission of European Higher Education Institutions and Potential External Constraints

Abstract

The aim of the research is to show that intended and unintended consequences of the EU economic constitution(s) are enhanced by a parallel tendency of Member States to commercialise formerly public sectors such as the HEI sector. The book investigates the potential tensions through doctrinal analysis and a qualitative study focussing on the exposure of HEI research to EU competition law as an under-researched example of exposure to economic constraints. It concludes that such exposure may compromise the wider aims that research intensive universities pursue in the public interest. 00Andrea Gideon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Law & Business (National University of Singapore) for which she has suspended her position as Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool. In her current project she is investigating the application of competition law to public services in ASEAN. Her previous research concerned tensions between the economic and the social in the EU with a focus on EU competition law in which research area she earned her PhD at the University of Leeds in 2014. Introduction: An interdisciplinary analysis of the mission of European HEIs and potential external constraints -- The position of higher education institutions in EU policy and law -- Higher education institutions and EU competition law -- The structure of research funding in Germany, the Netherlands and England (UK) -- Empirical study -- Conclusion: Higher education institutions in the EU between competition and public service.