应用型大学是新的时代背景下兴起的新型大学,其在教学职能的前提下,将服务社会职能置于科学研究职能之前。应用型大学“服务社会”职能的凸显,反映了大学与时代的外部逻辑,而“培养应用型人才”、重视知识与技术之“应用”则反映了应用型大学的内在逻辑,二者共同催生了应用型大学。应用型大学既是一种高等教育和高校的类型,更是一种新的大学理念;其健康发展需要社会各方的重视,更需要深入的理论研究和大胆的实践探索。
Application-oriented university is a new kind university as well as a new university idea in the new age, and it strengthens the function of social service in front of research, which reflects the external logicality of those universities. Their inner logicality is to culture applied talents and value the application of knowledge and technology. To build the application-oriented university, requires deep theoretical study and brave practical exploration.