Year: 2006
Type: book
Abstract: Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of experts, and knowledge innovation. While there is nothing new in universities’ links with industry, what is recent is their role as territorial actors. It is government policy in many countries that universities - and in some countries national laboratories - stimulate regional or local economic development. Universities, Innovation and the Economy explores the implications of this expectation. It sites this new role within the context of broader political histories, comparing how countries in Europe and North America have balanced the traditional roles of teaching and research with that of exploitation of research and defining a territorial role. Helen Lawton-Smith highlights how pressure from the state and from industry has produced new paradigms of accountability that include responsibilities for regional development. This book uses empirical evidence from studies conducted in North America and Europe to provide an overview of the changing geography of university-industry links.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Author: Helen Lawton-Smith
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Oxford Brookes University, Strong, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Times Higher Education, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, European Commission, University of Sussex, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, National Institutes of Health, Office of Science, University of California, San Diego, Stanford Bio-X, Economic and Social Research Council, Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
OpenAlex ID: W1565688904