A simple Tiebout model is presented where states provide university education to both immobile and mobile students. State governments choose the quality of public universities by trading off the value of education for the local immobile student population and the costs, net of tuition revenues,...

Valuable knowledge emerges increasingly outside of firm boundaries, in particular in public research institutions and universities. The question is how firms organize their interactions with universities effectively to acquire knowledge and apply it successfully. Literature has so far largely...

Valuable knowledge emerges increasingly outside of firm boundaries, in particular in public research institutions and universities. The question is how firms organize their interactions with universities effectively to acquire knowledge and apply it successfully. Literature has so far largely...

Am 26. Januar 2005 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht das Studiengebührenverbot aufgehoben. Damit ist es den einzelnen Bundesländern freigestellt, ob sie Gebühren erheben oder nicht. Während in der Literatur zum Thema Studiengebühren deren Finanzierungsfunktion im Vordergrund steht, widmet...

Understanding how policy can affect university participation is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. In this paper, we estimate the separate impacts of tuition fees and maintenance grants on the decision to enter university in the UK. We use Labour...

The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....

Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und gut ausgebildete Fachkräfte gewinnen für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung immer stärker an Bedeutung. Für die Unternehmen wird die Zusammenarbeit mit Hochschulen und Studierenden deshalb zukünftig noch wichtiger. Auf vier Handlungsfeldern bieten die...

In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically...

This paper develops theoretical standpoints to investigate and analyse university inventors and patenting activities. Although the studies on academic entrepreneurship and university patenting have substantially increased, first there have not been enough studies on individual inventors and...