Universities and the creation of wealth
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Universities and the creation of wealth
(SRHE and Open University Press imprint / general editor, Heather Eggins)
Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1999
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780335201334
Description
This text provides a basic insight into what universities do in terms of the creation of wealth, and examines what kind of organizations they might usefully become. It explores how they benefit from their local and regional communities and what more they might do.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 A new awareness: the re-scoping of the university
- knowledge societies, academic capital and economic growth
- how universities can thrive locally in a global economy
- measuring the economic impact of universities - Canada
- the changing relationship between higher education and small and medium sized enterprises
- the role of universities in economic growth - the ASEAN countries. Part 2 Examples and cases: universities and communities - cases from North East England
- the impact of a new university on its community - the University of Warwick
- Salford University - an historical industrial partnerhip
- the University of Sheffield's regional office
- towards the community university.
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: pbk ISBN 9780335203093
Description
"This book shows clearly what can be done and what has yet to be done. It is an important contribution to what must be a vital new phase in the history of higher education". - Sir Geoffrey Holland
It is becoming increasingly recognized that universities can and should play a role as positive economic engines for change, as significant partners with all the other participants in economic and social development. This book provides a basic insight into what universities currently do in terms of the creation of wealth, and into what kind of organizations they might usefully become. It explores how universities benefit their local and regional communities, and what more they might do. The first part of the book contextualizes the economic role of universities in terms, for instance, of the knowledge society, the global economy, small and medium-sized enterprises, and different countries (Canada and the ASEAN countries); the second part provides case studies of universities working with their hinterlands.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part one: A new awareness
The re-scoping of the university
Knowledge societies, academic capital and economic growth
How universities can thrive locally in a global economy
Measuring the economic impact of universities
Canada
The changing relationship between higher education and small and medium sized enterprises
The role of universities in economic growth
the ASEAN countries
Part two: Examples and cases
Universities and communities
cases from North East England
The impact of a new university on its community
the University of Warwick
Salford University
an historical industrial partnership
The University of Sheffield's regional office
Towards the community university
Index.
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