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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026857
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560258
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491900
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316502
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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/10013263068
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Measuring the regional "Third-Mission-Potential" of different types of HEIs
Jaeger, Angelika; Kopper, Johannes - 2013
recently, attention has also been drawn to the regional development role of university activities: the "Third Mission" of … studies point out, the success of university knowledge transfer is spatially distributed unequally, with some regions being … analyse an important influence factor on knowledge transfer success: the "fit" between university and region. High …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506146
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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
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The spatial convergence of knowledge in Portugal
Guerreiro, Gertrudes Saudés; Caleiro, António - 2015
Human resources are an essential element in territorial development. When the same are characterized by a high level of training are enhancers of a series of effects which are essential in the relationship between territorial and social cohesion. In this regard, the existence of higher education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481776
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"Universities and the economic crisis : triple helix, local entrepreneurship and endogenous growth" : "universities' funding in the framework of the current global financial crisis : threat or opportunity for the implementation of Triple Helix Theory?" : special session S_Q
Balomenou, Chrysanthi; Kolovos, Konstantinos - 2013
This work attempts to examine how the global financial crisis has affected the education sector and more specifically, universities. So our paper examines the universities public funding especially in Europe, the mobility of teaching staff, students etc. Also the impact of the financial crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538437