Universities and Territorial Development: Reshaping the Regional Role of UK Universities
By David R. Charles. 2003
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The regional role of universities is of increasing concern both to the managers of universities and to regional and national policymakers. Changes in the external environment are having a significant effect on the nature of the university and its approach to managing its interactions with external stakeholders, especially at a regional scale. Changes in the conceptualisation of regional development and in regional strategies also place universities more centrally to new policies. In the UK, since the late 1990s, a number of new national initiatives have dramatically increased the support for regional engagement in parallel with the application of regional level policies towards university activities. In consequence survey evidence suggests a growing focus on local and regional communities in university missions, but with a varying degree of identification for specific territorial scales. New institutional arrangements or responses include internal changes within universities such as new regional offices, and more significantly perhaps new collaborative regional arrangements and associations.
Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations
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Citations in the corpus
- Universities, knowledge networks and regional policy (2008, background): “…the area of knowledge transfer and commercialisation activities has not matched their overall potential, partly due to the relatively low level of internal financial and human resources that are being devoted to such activities (Charles and Conway , 2001 ; Charles, 2003 ; Wright, et al. , 2006 ).”
- Knowledge flow and inter-firm networks: The influence of network resources, spatial proximity and firm size (2010, background): “…within local universities, rather than in other regions of the UK or overseas, the regional dimension of university-business support development may be a further factor determining this regional bias (Charles 2003; Benneworth and Charles 2005; Coenen 2007; Huggins, Johnston, and Steffenson 2008).”
- The entrepreneurial university as driver for economic growth and social change - Key strategic challenges (2019, background): “programs (MOOCs); external expectations for guidance in social and economic issues (Charles, 2003; Arbo and Benneworth, 2007); and internal demands for future funding and autonomy (Darling et al.”
- The Economic and Innovation Contribution of Universities: A Regional Perspective (2009, background): “…of many UK HEIs in the area of knowledge transfer and commercialisation activities has not matched their overall potential, partly due to the relatively low level of internal financial and human resources devoted to such activities (Charles, 2003; Charles and Conway, 2001; Wright et al., 2006).”
- The Role of Universities in Regional Development: Conceptual Models and Policy Institutions in the UK, Sweden and Austria (2015, methodology): “The Science Enterprise Centres (focusing on entrepreneurship, aimed at both staff and students) and the University Innovation Centres (focused on collaboration between HEIs) were set up as separate funds under HEIF 1 (Charles, 2003).”