Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of
networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and
measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of
experts, and knowledge innovation. While there is nothing new in
universities' links with industry, what is recent is their role as
territorial actors. It is government policy in many countries that
universities - and in some countries national laboratories -
stimulate regional or local economic development. Universities,
Innovation and the Economy explores the implications of this
expectation. It sites this new role within the context of broader
political histories, comparing how countries in Europe and North
America have balanced the traditional roles of teaching and
research with that of exploitation of research and defining a
territorial role. Helen Lawton-Smith highlights how pressure from
the state and from industry has produced new paradigms of
accountability that include responsibilities for regional
development. This book uses empirical evidence from studies
conducted in North America and Europe to provide an overview of the
changing geography of university-industry links.
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