Universities, Knowledge Transfer and Regional Development: Geography, Entrepreneurship and Policy (New Horizons in Regional Science series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845429311 ISBN 13: 9781845429317

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

The transfer of new, economically useful knowledge from universities to the regional economy has recently attracted the attention of academics, professionals and policymakers alike. This book focuses on three issues at the centre of current research: the geography of academic knowledge transfers, the mechanisms of these transfers with regard to academic entrepreneurship and graduate mobility, and policy experience in university-based regional economic development.

The expert contributors provide state-of-the-art overviews of the field, reviewing and outlining important advancements in theory, empirics and policy analysis. Importantly, the book includes unique case studies of university-based development in three lagging regions of Asia, Europe and North America to illustrate individual experiences.

This timely and highly original book will be warmly welcomed by academics, students and researchers focusing on regional science, the economics of innovation, economic growth and technological change. Policymakers involved with regional development and innovation will also find much to interest them in this book.

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About the Author

Edited by the late Attila Varga, formerly Professor of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, and MTA-PTE Innovation and Economic Growth Research Group, Hungary

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845429311
• ISBN 13: 9781845429317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Varga Attila