Bright satanic mills : universities, regional development and the knowledge economy

• Other Authors: Harding, Alan, 1958- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007
• Subjects: vysoké školy; univerzity; regionální rozvoj; podpora regionálního rozvoje; regionalismus; znalostní ekonomika; universities and colleges; universities; regional development; government aid to regional development; regionalism; knowledge economy; kolektivní monografie; collective monographs
• ISBN: 9780754645856
• Physical Description: xiv, 242 s. : il., mapy ; 24 cm

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : universities, 'relevance' and scale / Alan Scott and Alan Harding
• External engagements and internal transformations : universities, localities and regional development / Beth Perry and Michael Harloe
• Knowledge and technology transfer / 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
• 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" / Todd Bridgman and High Willmott
• 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) / Lothar Zechlin.