Universities, Innovation and the Economy

by Lawton-Smith; Helen

• ISBN13: 9780415324939
• ISBN10: 0415324939
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Helen Lawton Smith is Reader in Management, School of Management and Organisational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and Director of Research, Oxfordshire Economic Observatory, Oxford University.

Table of Contents

List of tables

List of figures

Preface and acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

What kinds of university systems - what are the new paradigms in the 21 st century in Europe and the USA?

The regional economy and the university

The measurement of university and industry links and economic development

Universities in national innovation systems in Europe

Universities in innovation systems in North America

Universities, labour markets and economic development in Europe and the USA

Case study places: Europe - Grenoble and Oxfordshire

Case study places: USA- Stanford, Louisville and Princeton

Conclusions

References

Index

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