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Universities, Knowledge Transfer And Regional Development |
Edited by Attila Varga, Professor of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, Hungary
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Contents:
1. Introduction
Attila Varga
PART I: SETTING THE SCENE: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK AND KNOWLEDGE INVENTORY IN THEORY, EMPIRICS AND POLICY
2. What We Know and What We Don’t Know About the Regional Economic Impacts of Universities
Harvey A. Goldstein
3. Jaffe-Feldman-Varga: The Search for Knowledge Spillovers
Zoltán J. Ács
4. Detecting University-Industry Synergies: A Comparison of Two Approaches in Applied Cluster Analysis
Edward Feser
PART II: THE GEOGRAPHY OF ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
5. The Role of Higher Education and University R&D for Industrial R&D Location
Martin Andersson, Urban Gråsjö and Charlie Karlsson
6. Internationalization and Regional Embedding of Scientific Research in the Netherlands
Roderik Ponds, Frank van Oort and Koen Frenken
7. Academic Knowledge Transfers and the Structure of International Research Networks
Attila Varga and Andrea Parag
PART III: KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER MECHANISMS: ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND GRADUATE MOBILITY
8. Academic Entrepreneurs: Critical Issues and Lessons for Europe
Chiara Franzoni and Francesco Lissoni
9. Firm Formation and Economic Development: What Drives Academic Spin-offs to Success or Failure?
Knut Koschatzky and Joachim Hemer
10. On the Economics of University Ranking Lists: Intuitive Remarks on Intuitive Comparisons
Ádám Török
11. Product Differentiation or Spatial Monopoly? The Market Areas of Austrian Universities in Business Education
Gunther Maier
12. Higher Education, Graduate Migration and Regional Dynamism in Great Britain
Alessandra Faggian, Philip McCann and Stephen Sheppard
PART IV: UNIVERSITY-BASED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE EXPERIENCE OF LAGGING AREAS IN ASIA, EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
13. Barriers Against the Transfer of Knowledge between Universities and Industry in Newly-Industrialised Countries: An Analysis of University-Industry Linkages in Thailand
Daniel Schiller, Björn Mildahn and Javier Revilla Diez
14. Knowledge-based Local Economic Development for Enhancing Competitiveness in Lagging Areas of Europe: The Case of the University of Szeged
Imre Lengyel
15. The Care and Feeding of High-growth Businesses in Rural Areas: The Role of Universities
Hugh D. Sherman, William B. Lamb and Kevin Aspegren
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2009
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400 pp
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Hardback |
978 1 84542 931 7
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