Description |
1 online resource (259 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction : universities, 'relevance' and scale / Alan Scott and Alan Harding -- External engagements and internal transformations : universities, localities and regional development / Beth Perry and Michael Harloe -- Knowledge and technology transfer / 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 -- 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" / Todd Bridgman and High Willmott -- 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) / Lothar Zechlin |
Summary |
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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Education, Higher.
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Regional planning.
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higher education.
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regional planning.
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Education, Higher
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Regional planning
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Scott, Alan
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Laske, Stephan
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ISBN |
9780754683971 |
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0754683974 |
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128110373X |
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9781281103734 |
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