Bright Satanic Mills

Bright Satanic Mills

Universities, Regional Development and the Knowledge Economy

Laske, Stephen; Scott, Alan; Harding, Alan; Burtscher, Christian (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Taylor & Francis Ltd

02/2007

258

Dura

Inglês

9780754645856

15 a 20 dias

Brings together a cross-disciplinary and cross-national team of experts to consider the reasons for, and the implications of, the new relationship between universities and territorial development. This book examines the complex interactions between the 'inner life' of the university and its external environment.
Contents: Introduction: Universities, 'relevance' and scale, Alan Scott and Alan Harding. Part 1 Local and Regional Engagement Strategies: Dilemmas and Options: External Engagements and Internal Transformations: Universities, Localities and Regional Developments, Beth Perry and Michael Harloe; Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Can Universities Promote Regional Development?, Morten Levin; Regional Development, Universities and Strategies for Cluster Promotion, David R. Charles; The International Network University of the Future and Its Local and Regional Impacts, Huib Ernste. Part 2 Knowledge Production, Management and the Academic Role: 1: University Governance: Actors and Identities: Who Are the Real 'Problem owners'?, On the Social Embeddedness of Universities, Davydd J. Greenwood; Regulation, Engagement and Academic Production, Tim May; Narrating the University: Values Across Disciplines, Dolores Byrnes; Academics in the 'Knowledge Economy': From Expert to Intellectual?, Todd Bridgman and Hugh Willmott. 2: Organising Engagement: Practices and Impacts: Building Bridges over Troubled Water - A Tale of the Difficult Cooperation between University and Region, Stephan Laske, Maximilian Egger and Claudia Meister-Scheytt; Community Engagement in Developing a New Campus: The Griffith University, Logan Campus experience, Christine Smith and William Lovegrove; Managing a University Merger in a Post-Industrial Context (the Ruhrgebiet), An interview with Lothar Zechlin, Founding Rector of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Bibliography; Index.
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