ABSTRACT
This chapter discuses there are five drivers, or megatrends, that will determine the form of the universities of the future. These are: demographics, urbanization, info-structures, turbulence and new organizational logic. It examines four types of university will develop in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the traditional university, the focus university, the global conglomerate university and the global focus university. Higher education will experience an extremely critical period when singularity occurs. It is not only innovations in teaching technology that will transform educational institutions within higher education. The educational system in the Western world and in its universities in particular has been criticized for resembling a factory model. The population pyramid is in the course of being reversed, and the result will be an upside-down pyramid, i.e. few young people and more elderly people. In the innovation economy, the universities should be drivers for entrepreneurship and innovation.
