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Brown, Alexis – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2023
While universities already play an important role in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the UK, there is a clear opportunity to expand and enhance this role through better collaboration between universities, local growth partners and government. This HEPI Report intends to begin a conversation -- within universities and across local…
Descriptors: School Role, Universities, Foreign Countries, Research and Development
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Mendoza, Pilar; Öcal, Secil Dayioglu – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Most of the literature on innovation has focused on high-income nations with strong neoliberal economies, in which faculty become actors immersed in global markets and ecosystems of knowledge transfer. Based on the concepts of techno-nationalism and techno-globalism, this study contrasts a country representative of these innovation systems, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, School Business Relationship, Cultural Differences
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de Sandes-Guimaraes, Luisa Veras; Ribeiro, Artur Tavares Vilas Boas; Axel-Berg, Justin Hugo; de Rosso Manços, Guilherme; Plonski, Guilherme Ary – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2020
This article assesses whether or not students with international exchange experience return to their home countries with qualitatively different perspectives on the way universities can play a role in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems. It includes survey data collected from 516 Brazilian undergraduates asked to rank…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, College Role
Universities UK, 2011
This publication highlights the critical role UK universities will continue to play in reviving and sustaining economic growth across the country. Using a range of visual data and statistics, it highlights that the UK's future success depends on developing innovation and the knowledge economy in what is an increasingly competitive global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, College Role, Innovation
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Vinokur, Annie – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2010
This paper argues that higher education has a long history of globalising, though the form of these processes has been different. Two are identified; first, a normative order based on common frameworks; second, the expansion of formal exchanges of inputs and outputs from higher education. Different countries, however, are positioned differently in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Development
O'Grady, Jim; Bowles, Jonathan – Center for an Urban Future, 2009
Academic research institutions have long been important economic anchors for New York City. They provide thousands of jobs and serve as a magnet for talented students and faculty, who inject hundreds of millions of dollars into the local economy through federal research grants. Yet, even though New York's concentration of top-fight scientific…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Scientific Research, Global Approach, Innovation
Sekhon, J. G.; Shannon, A. G. – Journal of Technical and Vocational Education, 1985
This paper outlines the imbalance in Australia's intellectual and high technology trade, and argues that if Australia is to move beyond being a high technology colony, a new attitude toward research and development needs to be engendered, particularly in the private sector of industry. It is noted that Australia supplies a small number of the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education
Maidique, Modesto A. – National Forum: Phi Kappa Phi Journal, 1988
Higher education can act as a focal point of economic development. The most widely recognized type of economic development entails an association between a university, its research facilities, and private industry. An example of this partnership is the one between Stanford University and the industries in the "Silicon Valley." (MLW)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economics, Global Approach, Higher Education
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Bloch, Eric – Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1984
New industrial, scientific, and political problems have changed the nature of work, trade, and warfare. Work, trade, technology and education are discussed, along with problems shared by U.S. industry including structural changes, world competition, loss of leading edge, etc. (MLW)
Descriptors: Change, Engineering, Futures (of Society), Global Approach
New England Board of Higher Education, Boston, MA. – 1989
New England's economic competitiveness in a global economy and the role of the area's colleges and universities in contributing to that competitiveness are discussed, including a review of a similar analysis from the perspective of the state of Maine. The report examines information developed from a study having three research components: (1) the…
Descriptors: College Role, Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Impact
New England Board of Higher Education, Boston, MA. – 1989
New England's economic competitiveness in a global economy and the role of the area's colleges and universities in contributing to that competitiveness are discussed, including a review of a similar analysis from the perspective of the state of Connecticut. The report examines information developed from a study having three research components:…
Descriptors: College Role, Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Impact
New England Board of Higher Education, Boston, MA. – 1989
A policy briefing report discusses the initiatives currently in place in Massachusetts that are designed to enhance that state's economic and educational effectiveness in order to improve its international competitive position. The report is divided into four major areas of discussion: (1) an overview of the global economic challenge and the New…
Descriptors: College Role, Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Impact
New England Board of Higher Education, Boston, MA. – 1989
A policy briefing report discusses the initiatives currently in place in New Hampshire that are designed to enhance that state's economic and educational effectiveness in order to improve its international competitive position. The report is divided into four major areas of discussion: (1) an overview of the global economic challenge and the New…
Descriptors: College Role, Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Impact
New England Board of Higher Education, Boston, MA. – 1989
A policy briefing report discusses the initiatives currently in place in Rhode Island that are designed to enhance that state's economic and educational effectiveness in order to improve its international competitive position. The report is divided into four major areas of discussion: (1) an overview of the global economic challenge and the New…
Descriptors: College Role, Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Impact
New England Board of Higher Education, Boston, MA. – 1989
A policy briefing report discusses the initiatives currently in place in Vermont that are designed to enhance that state's economic and educational effectiveness in order to improve its international competitive position. The report is divided into four major areas of discussion: (1) an overview of the global economic challenge and the New England…
Descriptors: College Role, Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Impact
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