Universities, Knowledge Transfer and Regional Development

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

• Contents:1. IntroductionAttila VargaPART I: SETTING THE SCENE: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK AND KNOWLEDGE INVENTORY IN THEORY, EMPIRICS AND POLICY2. What We Know and What We Don’t Know About the Regional Economic Impacts of UniversitiesHarvey A. Goldstein3. Jaffe-Feldman-Varga: The Search for Knowledge SpilloversZoltán J. Ács4. Detecting University-Industry Synergies: A Comparison of Two Approaches in Applied Cluster Analysis Edward FeserPART II: THE GEOGRAPHY OF ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS5. The Role of Higher Education and University R&D for Industrial R&D LocationMartin Andersson, Urban Gråsjö and Charlie Karlsson6. Internationalization and Regional Embedding of Scientific Research in the NetherlandsRoderik Ponds, Frank van Oort and Koen Frenken7. Academic Knowledge Transfers and the Structure of International Research NetworksAttila Varga and Andrea ParagPART III: KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER MECHANISMS: ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND GRADUATE MOBILITY8. Academic Entrepreneurs: Critical Issues and Lessons for EuropeChiara Franzoni and Francesco Lissoni9. Firm Formation and Economic Development: What Drives Academic Spin-offs to Success or Failure? Knut Koschatzky and Joachim Hemer10. On the Economics of University Ranking Lists: Intuitive Remarks on Intuitive ComparisonsÁdám Török11. Product Differentiation or Spatial Monopoly? The Market Areas of Austrian Universities in Business EducationGunther Maier12. Higher Education, Graduate Migration and Regional Dynamism in Great BritainAlessandra Faggian, Philip McCann and Stephen SheppardPART IV: UNIVERSITY-BASED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE EXPERIENCE OF LAGGING AREAS IN ASIA, EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA13. Barriers Against the Transfer of Knowledge between Universities and Industry in Newly-Industrialised Countries: An Analysis of University-Industry Linkages in ThailandDaniel Schiller, Björn Mildahn and Javier Revilla Diez14. Knowledge-based Local Economic Development for Enhancing Competitiveness in Lagging Areas of Europe: The Case of the University of SzegedImre Lengyel15. The Care and Feeding of High-growth Businesses in Rural Areas: The Role of UniversitiesHugh D. Sherman, William B. Lamb and Kevin AspegrenIndex

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