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Garcia-Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria; Mas-Verdú, Francisco; Roig-Tierno, Norat – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper examines interactions between the presence of top-ranked universities and other conditions that encourage regional competitiveness. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was conducted to assess the combined effect of the conditions. The analysis yields several noteworthy conclusions. First, no single condition is necessary…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Achievement Rating, Competition
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Lilles, Alo; Rõigas, Kärt – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Various studies show that higher education institutions contribute to regional economic development by R&D, creation of human capital, knowledge and technology transfer, and by creation of a favourable milieu. It is brought out that the basic procedure is to sum expenditures of the college community (students, faculty, staff and visitors)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Geographic Regions, Research and Development, Statistical Analysis
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Le, Thanh; Tang, Kam Ki – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper empirically examines the impact of academic research on high-tech manufacturing growth of 28 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and emerging countries over the 1991-2005 period. A standard research and development (R&D) expenditure based measure is found to be too general to capture the input in high-tech…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Manufacturing Industry, Technological Advancement, International Organizations