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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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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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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 …
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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...
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The academic entrepreneur : myth or reality for increased regional growth in Europe?
Erdős, Katalin; Varga, Attila - 2010
in Hungary. Hungary is an excellent European case since the features of its university system are rooted in the … "academic entrepreneur" (Etzkowitz) university spin-off firm formation has grown naturally from the academic culture of the US … concept academic motivations are main drivers in university spin-off firm formation in the US. Despite this challenging view …
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The contribution of universities to growth : empirical evidence for Italy
Carree, Martin Anthony; Della Malva, Antonio; … - 2011 - Version: October 21, 2011
New entrepreneurial ventures may represent a viable and effective mechanism to transform academic knowledge into regional economic growth. We test this notion for the Italian provinces between 2001 and 2006. We evaluate three outputs of academic activities: teaching, research and Intellectual...
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How to measure the local economic impact of the universities' third mission activities?
Zuti, Bence; Lukovics, Miklós - 2014
Nowadays it is more and more important to know that how certain units of regional economy (enterprises, higher education institutions, other units) affect local economy. The economic impact analysis of higher education institutions is more complex than the impact analysis of enterprises, since...
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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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Regionale Nachfrageeffekte der Hochschulen - methodische Probleme und Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang; Krähmer, Christian - 2007 - [Online-Ausg. ]
Die Neugründung und der Ausbau von Hochschulen gehören zu dem gängigen Instrumenten der regionalen Strukturpolitik. Welche Auswirkungen aber hat die Existenz einer Hochschule in ökonomischer Hinsicht tatsächlich für eine Region? Das vorliegende Paper analysiert und vergleicht die...
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