Nelson Casimiro Zavale is Associate Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo-Mozambique, and a Senior Research Fellow at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.Christian Schneijderberg, PhD, works as Senior Researcher at the International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel, Germany.

• List of figures and tablesList of abbreviationsSeries editor's forewordPreface and acknowledgements by Nelson C. ZavaleNote for the readerChapter 1 - IntroductionChapter 2 - University and academics' societal engagement: Main conceptsChapter 3 - Same but different? SSA as knowledge society and economyChapter 4 - Knowledge producers in SSA: Higher education institutionsChapter 5 - Features of knowledge produced in Sub-Saharan AfricaChapter 6 - Characteristics and typologies of stakeholders and knowledge users in SSAChapter 7 - Forms and channels of knowledges transfer between university and external stakeholders in Sub-Sahara AfricaChapter 8 - Outputs, outcomes ,and benefits of university and academics' societal engagement and knowledges transfer in Sub-Sahara AfricaChapter 9 - Main drivers and constraints or barriers to university's societal engagement and knowledge transferChapter 10 - (Un-)fitness of conventional approaches to university and academics' societal engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa and the presentation of an alternative analytical frameworkAfterwordIndex

Nelson Casimiro Zavale is Associate Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo-Mozambique, and a Senior Research Fellow at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.Christian Schneijderberg, PhD, works as Senior Researcher at the International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel, Germany.

• List of figures and tablesList of abbreviationsSeries editor's forewordPreface and acknowledgements by Nelson C. ZavaleNote for the readerChapter 1 - IntroductionChapter 2 - University and academics' societal engagement: Main conceptsChapter 3 - Same but different? SSA as knowledge society and economyChapter 4 - Knowledge producers in SSA: Higher education institutionsChapter 5 - Features of knowledge produced in Sub-Saharan AfricaChapter 6 - Characteristics and typologies of stakeholders and knowledge users in SSAChapter 7 - Forms and channels of knowledges transfer between university and external stakeholders in Sub-Sahara AfricaChapter 8 - Outputs, outcomes ,and benefits of university and academics' societal engagement and knowledges transfer in Sub-Sahara AfricaChapter 9 - Main drivers and constraints or barriers to university's societal engagement and knowledge transferChapter 10 - (Un-)fitness of conventional approaches to university and academics' societal engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa and the presentation of an alternative analytical frameworkAfterwordIndex

Nelson Casimiro Zavale is Associate Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo-Mozambique, and a Senior Research Fellow at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.Christian Schneijderberg, PhD, works as Senior Researcher at the International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel, Germany.

• List of figures and tablesList of abbreviationsSeries editor's forewordPreface and acknowledgements by Nelson C. ZavaleNote for the readerChapter 1 - IntroductionChapter 2 - University and academics' societal engagement: Main conceptsChapter 3 - Same but different? SSA as knowledge society and economyChapter 4 - Knowledge producers in SSA: Higher education institutionsChapter 5 - Features of knowledge produced in Sub-Saharan AfricaChapter 6 - Characteristics and typologies of stakeholders and knowledge users in SSAChapter 7 - Forms and channels of knowledges transfer between university and external stakeholders in Sub-Sahara AfricaChapter 8 - Outputs, outcomes ,and benefits of university and academics' societal engagement and knowledges transfer in Sub-Sahara AfricaChapter 9 - Main drivers and constraints or barriers to university's societal engagement and knowledge transferChapter 10 - (Un-)fitness of conventional approaches to university and academics' societal engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa and the presentation of an alternative analytical frameworkAfterwordIndex