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Title: Implications of Some Recent Trends for the Role of Universities in Economic Development


1
Implications of Some Recent Trends for the Role
of Universities in Economic Development
  • Luke Georghiou, PREST, Manchester Business School
  • http//www.mbs.ac.uk/PREST

2
Overview of Key drivers
  • Globalisation
  • English language teaching and research creating
    global market
  • Stratification
  • Competition and student consumerism
  • Rise of new agents and functions
  • Managerialism in others
  • Demography
  • Increasing participation
  • Ageing students and teachers
  • Technology
  • Distance a reduced factor through grid computing
    and e-learning
  • Counterbalanced by cost and concentration of
    facilities
  • Collaboration with industry
  • Implications of open innovation
  • Collaboration versus commercialisation

3
New ecology of industry
  • Large firms complemented by dynamic population of
    smaller companies
  • Complex pattern of birth, growth, acquisition of
    firms enables effective selection of technologies
  • Trebling of outsourcing to private sector
    research houses and universities
  • Broadband academic-industry links
  • Collaborative ventures and alliances
  • Globalisation of RD following capabilities and
    markets
  • Distributed innovation later termed open
    innovation

4
Prescriptive foresight on the innovation system
Creating an Innovative Europe Report of the Aho
Group http//ec.europa.eu/invest-in-research/acti
on/2006_ahogroup_en.htm
5
Collaboration with industry (2)
  • Aho Group endorsed EIRMA et al Responsible
    Partnering report which emphasises need for high
    level commitment on both sides and maintaining
    distinctive missions
  • Radical call for 10 annual cross-sectoral
    mobility
  • Core them of report need for innovation friendly
    lead markets
  • Can these exist at a regional level? Manchester
    Procurement Study

6
Policy gaps
  • Unresolved problem of university relations with
    non-high tech smes
  • Main needs are knowledge transfer not research
    but networking can help here too
  • Traditional academic incentives (eg in
    promotions) do not reward knowledge transfer
  • Knowledge exchange also extends to impacts on
    policy and society

7
Contribution of science to the economy
  • Six channels
  • Scientific discovery and publication
  • Production of trained people
  • Development of instrumentation and methods
  • Cumulative expertise available for
    problem-solving
  • Entry ticket to networks and access to external
    knowledge
  • Commercialisation and spin-offs
  • All but first have clear tacit dimension and
    influenced by proximity

8
Some policy mechanisms
  • Infrastructural dimension science park,
    incubators
  • proof of concept and venture funds
  • Regional dimension
  • Clusters knowledge-based
  • Science Cities Manchester Knowledge Capital
  • May be seen as means to amplify the effects of
    innovation policies

9
Deficiencies of metrics and evaluation
10
Some gaps
  • Non-existent statistics on innovative procurement
  • Very poor data on intersectoral mobility
  • Knowledge exchange assessed on anecdotal basis
    with little true evaluation of effects on
    performance of involved parties
  • Behavioural additionality particularly neglected
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