Alan Harding, Stephan Laske

Bright Satanic Mills (eBook, PDF)

Universities, Regional Development and the Knowledge Economy
Redaktion: Scott, Alan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317172420
• Artikelnr.: 49353132

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.