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0000-0002-0885-4209
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Northumbria University
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Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2001
DOI: 10.1080/713693777
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-11-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2005
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-06-2012
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 13-11-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2003
DOI: 10.1080/0269094032000073780
Abstract: The regional role of universities is of increasing concern both to the managers of universities and to regional and national policymakers. Changes in the external environment are having a significant effect on the nature of the university and its approach to managing its interactions with external stakeholders, especially at a regional scale. Changes in the conceptualisation of regional development and in regional strategies also place universities more centrally to new policies. In the UK, since the late 1990s, a number of new national initiatives have dramatically increased the support for regional engagement in parallel with the application of regional level policies towards university activities. In consequence survey evidence suggests a growing focus on local and regional communities in university missions, but with a varying degree of identification for specific territorial scales. New institutional arrangements or responses include internal changes within universities such as new regional offices, and more significantly perhaps new collaborative regional arrangements and associations.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-09-2022
Publisher: Alexandrine Press
Date: 23-08-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1999
Publisher: UiS Scholarly Publishing Services
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.31265/USPS.77
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 20-01-2014
DOI: 10.1093/CJRES/RST029
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-09-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1991
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-10-2016
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-05-2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-02-2021
Abstract: Current EU policies aim to support regional research, development, and innovation activities. The Cohesion Policy, implemented through Structural Funds (SFs) Operational Programmes, seeks to foster local level innovation. In parallel, universities have become important drivers of regional development through their ‘third mission’ driven by the different policy levels. This article investigates the tensions between the primary institutional logics of the university and the institutional logic of the SF programmes in peripheral regions as experienced by a multi-disciplinary university network from Finland. The findings from the case study reveal competing and co-evolving institutional logics of the two frameworks university-led SF activities increase collaboration with local stakeholders, but the implementation of SF projects remains challenging (e.g. strict guidelines, higher education (HE) policies driving research excellence). Further investigation of these results in different regional contexts could provide new tools for managing the university third mission more efficiently, through SF programmes and beyond.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-10-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-1995
DOI: 10.1177/095042229500900502
Abstract: The authors examine the impact of international collaborative research programmes on university—industry links in the UK, with particular reference to the relations involved in the European Union's Framework Programme research. The evidence presented in the paper suggests that international collaboration has generated benefits as well as significant costs for UK university—industry linkages. More importantly, it is argued that the alleged general convergence in university and industry research needs has been somewhat illusory in the UK due to the rationalization of its R& D activity. In addition, these tendencies have been supported to a degree by EU funding rules, the internationalization of UK universities and the ‘repeat’ nature of international collaboration networks. In conclusion, the authors suggest that many of the problems may be specific to the UK and that policies are needed to strengthen links between UK universities and industry within such collaborative projects.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-12-2014
DOI: 10.1111/PUAR.12339
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2006
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1995
DOI: 10.1177/095042229500900602
Abstract: The authors draw on international comparative research undertaken for the European Commission and other organizations in recent years to examine the regional strategic dimension of science park development in several European countries. They begin with a short review of the nature of regional technology policy, and then discuss the different models of science parks, considering whether the models reflect an evolutionary process or a deeper institutional variety across Europe. They then present several contrasting case studies, illustrating their embeddedness within different regional contexts. The paper concludes with a discussion of the future direction of science parks and the implications for public policy at the national, local and, most importantly, at the European level.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2008
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-10-2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 22-04-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-04-2022
DOI: 10.1177/09504222221096279
Abstract: There is limited experience with innovation policies in rural areas, often based on a one-size-fits-all approach. However, rural businesses have erse needs and there is difficulty in applying smart specialisation approaches for the use of European Union Cohesion funding in rural areas. A key resource in rural areas is the local university, and universities face increased demands to support local firms. This paper examines one particular case of a university in a rural region and its use of the European Regional Development Fund to support innovation activities. The challenges of working with rural businesses are explored, as is the focus on one-to-one support rather than the more collective smart specialisation approach. Universities need to take a pragmatic approach to ensure that the needs of firms can be balanced with the capacities of rural universities which are often smaller and more specialised than urban universities.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-11-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-1999
DOI: 10.1080/02690949908726492
Abstract: The Siemens plant in North Tyneside, England gave the pretext for a range of local agencies to act together, to modernise part of the regional institutional infrastructure. This improvement meant that when the investment closed, and technological, organisational and skill modernisation by the firm in the region ceased, the region continued to experience the benefits from the temporary presence of the investment. This paper uses the case of Siemens to problematise the conventional understanding of the ephemerality of branch-plant investments to understand how they can usefully contribute to the modernisation of peripheral industrial regions within the UK.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-09-2019
DOI: 10.1007/S10037-019-00134-2
Abstract: In idual academic scientists engage in various collaborations through their involvement in both regional and extra-regional networks. However, little is known about how these networks are actually formed. Focusing on university and industry networks, we take the view that the process of building new networks is an entrepreneurial activity that involves unpredictability and often goal ambiguity. This paper thus employs the theories of causation and effectuation to explore how the personal networks of academics are initiated. With evidence from the networks of 12 academics based at the University of Stavanger, Norway we show that both causation and effectuation are employed by academics when building their networks. The usage of causation was found to be more consistent with building industry networks whereas effectuation was employed when building networks in academia. Consequently, effectuation was characteristic of the international networks which were found to be mostly constituted by other academics. On the regional level, a mixture of both approaches of causation and effectuation was observed, with more industry linkages suggesting a tendency to be more causal than effectual. Furthermore, while causation was employed for project level networking, effectuation was employed for establishing more in idual level ties.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1994
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2015
Abstract: Six English cities were designated by the UK Government as science cities in 2004 and 2005, with the intention that local consortia develop strategies for the realisation of this vision. Previous definitions of science cities are explored to show how the concept has evolved over time, with the English initiative placed within a global context to show how it adapts previous models to the specific needs of the UK and fits with academic debates on the local governance of science and the role of innovation in urban and regional development. The six cases are briefly examined as to their aims and the nature of their governance and approach and potential benefits of the initiative are outlined to show how it may contribute to a new perspective on the role of cities in science and economic development in the UK.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-10-2016
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 19-07-2011
DOI: 10.1108/13673271111151992
Abstract: This article seeks to explore the micro‐dimensions of knowledge transfer partnerships (KTPs) with the aim of developing an appreciation of the personal interactions that facilitate the success of these university‐industry collaborations. Empirical evidence concerning the operation of three KTPs, collected through interviews with the key partners and the review of relevant documentary material, is analysed through the lens of the communities of practice approach to situated learning. The analysis of three case studies provides evidence to support the value of conceptualising the process of knowledge transfer between universities and industry as one of learning taking place within communities in which the development of mutual engagement, joint enterprise and shared repertoires play important roles facilitating successful collaborations. Moreover, the analysis highlights the significance of the boundary spanning roles of the KTP partners in facilitating the knowledge transfer process through engagement in both the university and industry communities. By illuminating the dimensions of the inter‐personal interactions involved in the knowledge transfer process the CoPs analysis provides the foundations for recommendations to improve university‐industry KTPs, in particular, and, inter‐organisational knowledge transfer initiatives in general. A limitation of this research is its focus on the UK context. Moreover, given the exploratory nature of this study further research is required to verify the findings reported here. The article makes an original empirical and conceptual contribution to understandings of university‐industry knowledge transfer collaborations.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-09-2003
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-09-2013
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 13-11-2012
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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