Handbook of Universities and Regional Development

Contents:

1. Introduction 1
Katalin Erdos and Attila Varga

PART I UNIVERSITIES AS ACTORS IN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2. A history of the American land-grant universities and regional development 11
Nathan M. Sorber
3. The second academic revolution : antecedents and consequences of academic
entrepreneurship 29
Henry Etzkowitz
4. Universities and their economic and social contribution to regional development 44
Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argiles
5. The transformative role of universities in regional innovation systems : lessons
from university engagement in cross-border regions 54
Jos van den Broek, Franziska Eckardt and Paul Benneworth
6. Connections between universities and industry in the United States : trusteeship
before and after the great recession 73
Sheila Slaughter and Barrett J. Taylor
7. Philanthropic support of higher education : major gifts from high net worth
individuals 90
Emily I. Nwakpuda and Maryann P. Feldman

PART II UNIVERSITY KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER MECHANISMS
8. University patenting and the quest for technology transfer policy models in Europe 111
Catalina Martinez and Valerio Sterzi
9. The regional impacts of university spin-offs : in what ways do spin-offs contribute
to the region? 151
Einar Rasmussen
10. The under-researched role of alumni spin-off entrepreneurs in upgrading a
university's entrepreneurial support structure: essential ingredient or just a
decorative accessory? 166
Arne Vorderwu?lbecke and Rolf Sternberg
11. Scientists as businessmen - can they, should they? 192
Katalin Erdos
12. Networks, innovation systems and the geography of university-industry linkages :
the case of knowledge-intensive business services 210
Andrew Johnston and Robert Huggins

PART III REGIONAL CASE STUDIES FROM THREE CONTINENTS
13. Universities, the bioscience sector and local economic development in
Oxfordshire : challenges and opportunities 230
Helen Lawton Smith, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Laurel Edmunds
14. The pathways and challenges of university engagement: comparative case studies 251
Harvey Goldstein, Verena Radinger-Peer and Sabine Sedlacek
15. The role of mid-range universities in knowledge transfer and regional
development : the case of five central European regions 279
Zoltan Gal and Pavel Ptacek
16. Progress of academic knowledge-based entrepreneurship in three minor post-
Soviet economies 301
Annamaria Inzelt
17. The role of non-research universities in regional innovation systems in China 329
Yuzhuo Cai, Po Yang and Anu Lyytinen
18. Changing higher education systems through corporate social responsibility?
? A study on multinational enterprises' efforts to establish proto-institutions at
Vietnamese universities 348
Joeran Wrana, Moritz Breul and Javier Revilla Diez
19. Universities and innovation habitats in Brazil : cases of the Pontifical Catholic
University of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 370
Thiago Renault, Sergio R. Yates, Leonardo Melo and Jose Manoel Carvalho de Mello

Index 393

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• Universidades
• A gestão do conhecimento
• Estudos regionais
• Economia do desenvolvimento

academic entrepreneurship; knowledge and technology transfer; patenting and spin-offs; triple-helix; third mission of universities; regional development