illustrate its application through the case of university students in Scotland and determine the exogeneity of their expenditures …

. In this regard, the existence of higher education institutions across the territory allows a delocalised qualification of … of the percentage of the population with a higher education level in the periods elapsed between the last two censuses in … percentage of resident population with higher education level, having risen considerably (from 1991 until 2011), in Portugal, the …

requires smart investments. Therefore the higher education system, which is supposed to supply people with high-level skills … and knowledge, plays crucial role in this process. The paper focuses on the linkage between higher education offer and … labour market needs in the regional perspective. The goal of this paper is to analyse the extent to which higher education is …

The influence of higher education institutions on regional economic and social development is a topic of special … access to research facilities and highly qualified human capital. Traditional missions of higher education institutions … comprise the generation and accumulation of academic knowledge, and the diffusion of knowledge via academic education. More …

attainment, while less evidence has been presented on the role of these factors in the choice of university field of study … Finnish university students who graduated from high school between 1991 and 1996. The study's emphasis is on analyzing to what … econometric analysis relies on multinomial discrete choices models and the use of controls, e.g., for pre-university grades in …

' originating from the Niederrhine University of Applied Sciences (NR UAS), its only institution of higher education. More detailed …The influence of tertiary education on the economic development of a region is a topic of special interest and … terms of regional competitive advantages. If graduates remain in the university's region, they form and enrich a highly …

This work attempts to examine how the global financial crisis has affected the education sector and more specifically … case of Greece. More specifically, we are presenting the current situation in Greek Higher Education, focusing on the New … Educational Law and especially on the under consultation plan "Athena" of the Ministry of Education, for the restructure …

founded start-up firms in Sweden in the period 2003-2005, a third of whom attended a university, to estimate whether the … choice of where to pursue tertiary education studies had significant impact on the location of their firm. Our results … affect regional economic development that complements the strong focus on spin-off activities by university researchers in …

"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 … the empirical literature pays relatively little attention to the particular "academic" features of university spin …