The development of academic research capacities carries within itself the seeds of future economic and social development in the form of human capital, tacit knowledge and intellectual property. Channelling knowledge flows into new sources of technological innovation has become an academic task,...

Explores the growing overlap of universities and industries in developing new technology for private gain, and how that blurring of boundaries impacts a university's traditional mission of teaching and research and the claim for public funding. The 14 studies, from a January 1996 workshop in...

The knowledge-based society depends on the production, distribution, and utilization of new knowledge.Established at the crossroads of research, education, and innovation, universities hold the key to this new society.Among the challenges that universities face today are an increasingly unstable...

Benchmarking exercises have become increasingly popular within the sphere of regional policy making. However, most exercises are restricted to comparing regions within a particular continental bloc or nation. This article introduces the World Knowledge Competitiveness Index (WKCI), which is one...

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...

"Exploring the process of university collaboration from the perspective of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this book offers an in-depth examination of the collaboration process, dispelling the myth of the disengagement of these firms. Andrew Johnston and Robert Huggins present a...

1. An International Perspective on Science and Technology Parks -- 2. The Strategic Choices that Science and Technology Parks Must Make -- 3. University Science and Technology Parks: A U.S. Perspective -- 4. Science Technology Parks and Close Relations: Heterogeneity, Context and Data -- 5. The...