Recent years have seen a growing emphasis upon the need for universities to contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the regions in which they are situated. In this book, a multidisciplinary and international team of experts considers the reasons for, and the implications of, the new relationship between universities and territorial development.
Recent years have seen a growing emphasis upon the need for universities to contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the regions in which they are situated. In this book, a multidisciplinary and international team of experts considers the reasons for, and the implications of, the new relationship between universities and territorial development.
Alan Harding is Professor of Urban and Regional Governance in the School of Social Sciences and co-director of the Institute of Political and Economic Governance (ipeg) at the University of Manchester, UK. Alan Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Stephan Laske is Professor in the Institute for Organization and Learning, and Dean of the School of Management at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Christian Burtscher is a Doctorial Student in Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
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Contents: Introduction: Universities 'relevance' and scale Alan Scott and Alan Harding. Part 1 Local and Regional Engagement Strategies: Dilemmas and Options: External Engagements and Internal Transformations: Universities Localities and Regional Developments Beth Perry and Michael Harloe; Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Can Universities Promote Regional Development? Morten Levin; Regional Development Universities and Strategies for Cluster Promotion David R. Charles; The International Network University of the Future and Its Local and Regional Impacts Huib Ernste. Part 2 Knowledge Production Management and the Academic Role: §1: University Governance: Actors and Identities: Who Are the Real 'Problem owners'? On the Social Embeddedness of Universities Davydd J. Greenwood; Regulation Engagement and Academic Production Tim May; Narrating the University: Values Across Disciplines Dolores Byrnes; Academics in the 'Knowledge Economy': From Expert to Intellectual? Todd Bridgman and Hugh Willmott. §2: Organising Engagement: Practices and Impacts: Building Bridges over Troubled Water - A Tale of the Difficult Cooperation between University and Region Stephan Laske Maximilian Egger and Claudia Meister-Scheytt; Community Engagement in Developing a New Campus: The Griffith University Logan Campus experience Christine Smith and William Lovegrove; Managing a University Merger in a Post-Industrial Context (the Ruhrgebiet) An interview with Lothar Zechlin Founding Rector of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Introduction: Universities 'relevance' and scale Alan Scott and Alan Harding. Part 1 Local and Regional Engagement Strategies: Dilemmas and Options: External Engagements and Internal Transformations: Universities Localities and Regional Developments Beth Perry and Michael Harloe; Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Can Universities Promote Regional Development? Morten Levin; Regional Development Universities and Strategies for Cluster Promotion David R. Charles; The International Network University of the Future and Its Local and Regional Impacts Huib Ernste. Part 2 Knowledge Production Management and the Academic Role: §1: University Governance: Actors and Identities: Who Are the Real 'Problem owners'? On the Social Embeddedness of Universities Davydd J. Greenwood; Regulation Engagement and Academic Production Tim May; Narrating the University: Values Across Disciplines Dolores Byrnes; Academics in the 'Knowledge Economy': From Expert to Intellectual? Todd Bridgman and Hugh Willmott. §2: Organising Engagement: Practices and Impacts: Building Bridges over Troubled Water - A Tale of the Difficult Cooperation between University and Region Stephan Laske Maximilian Egger and Claudia Meister-Scheytt; Community Engagement in Developing a New Campus: The Griffith University Logan Campus experience Christine Smith and William Lovegrove; Managing a University Merger in a Post-Industrial Context (the Ruhrgebiet) An interview with Lothar Zechlin Founding Rector of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Bibliography; Index.
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