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The Effect of Postsecondary Educational Institutions on Local Economies : A Bird's-Eye View
Lehnert, Patrick; Dell, Madison; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite worldwide expansion of higher education, the impact of higher education institutions on local economic activity is still poorly understood. We analyze the local economic effects of branch campus openings in Tennessee and Texas, two states representative of the underlying U.S. enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635642
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The regional significance of university locations in Lower Saxony
Stöver, Britta - 2019
-side contributions of the university locations within Lower-Saxony using a combination of multiplier analysis and spatial econometrics on … or a selected university location but gives a complete picture of the importance and significance of all university … results give a complete and reproducible impression of the importance and significance of the different university locations …
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The impact of higher education institutions in low-density territories
Pereira, Cristina; Mourato, Joaquim; Alves, João; … - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 3, pp. 1-13
university members and their visitors, that positively impacts regional development. A demand-side approach was followed so that …
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Regional Impact Analyses and the Appropriate Treatment of public budget constraints under devolution : an application to Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
Hermannsson, Kristinn; Lisenkova, Katerina; McGregor, … - 2010 - Draft, June 2010
There have been numerous studies of the "impact" of HEIs on their host regions. These have typically focused on the demand for goods and services in the host region. The best of these studies employ regional input-output analyses. However, there has developed a "policy scepticism" about the...
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Employability and skills of higher education graduates : a Portuguese study
Rolim, Cássio Frederico C.; Machado-Taylor, Maria de … - 2016
One important conquest of the XXI Century is the fact that Higher Education is available for a large amount of the population. This is important also for countries and regions due to the emphasis on the development of literature on knowledge and innovation as a motor for the development of...
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Universities that matter for regional knowledge base renewal : the role of multilevel embeddedness
Grashof, Nils; Graf, Holger - 2023
We analyze the role of universities or, more generally higher education institutions (HEIs), in terms of their regional and international embeddedness for regional knowledge base renewal. We assume that the introduction of radical patents in the sense of novel technological combinations...
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Successful Universities towards the Improvement of Regional Competitiveness : ‘Fourth Generation’ Universities
Lukovics, Miklós - 2019
Nowadays several successful examples prove that universities have a quite intense role in the improvement of competitiveness of certain territories and in many cases they have an active role in endeavors regarding economic development. Modern economic development demands that due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901207
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Drivers and challenges of RIS3-related university engagement : insights from five European regions
Tomasi, Sabrina; Szávics, Petra; Aleffi, Chiara; … - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 1, pp. 1-21
Universities have long been considered key players in regional innovation systems and innovation‐driven regional development. In addition, as part of the quadruple helix, they can play a major role in RIS3 design and implementation by acting as civic universities. This contribution differs...
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College Openings and Local Economic Development
Berlingieri, Francesco; Gathmann, Christina; … - 2022
We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082316
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The effect of postsecondary educational institutions on local economies : a bird's-eye view
Lehnert, Patrick; Dell, Madison; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; … - 2024
Despite worldwide expansion of higher education, the impact of higher education institutions on local economic activity is still poorly understood. We analyze the local economic effects of branch campus openings in Tennessee and Texas, two states representative of the underlying U.S. enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550362