1st Edition
Universities, Cities and Regions Loci for Knowledge and Innovation Creation
Introduction: Knowledge regions and the role of innovation in times of economic crisis (Stavros A. Zenios) Part One: Regional Roles of Universities in National and International Contexts 1. The Civic University (John Goddard) 2. Which Innovation Policies for the European Regions? (Roberta Capello) 3. The innovation process of European regions (Malgorzata Runiewicz Wardyn) 4. Universities as Knowledge Nodes in open Innovation Systems (Suntje Schmidt) 5. Regional cooperation or external links? (Agnieszka Olechnicka) 6. What do you offer?: Interlinkages of universities and high-technology companies in science and technology parks in Berlin and Seville (Sascha Brinkhoff) 7. Relations between international research collaboration, the scientific production and impact of research at Polish universities (Krzysztof Klincewicz) Part Two: Universities and Innovation-driven Development 8. The ‘Adaptive’ University (Jan Sadlak) 9. The Second Coming of the Triple Helix (Martin Meyer) 10. Bringing university knowledge to market (Marina van Geenhuizen) 11. The Academic Entrepreneur (Attila Varga) 12. The Third Role of Universities (Pavla Zizalova and Vladislav Cadil) 13. Entrepreneurial universities, entrepreneurial students (José Luis Vázquez, Ana Lanero and MarÃa Purificación GarcÃa) 14. Role of university medicine in an innovation network (Dennis Haeckl, Hans Wiesmeth and Oliver Fiala) Part Three: An Academic Footstep in the City 15. The Research University, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (Helen Lawton-Smith) 16. Strategically coupling Universities and their cities (Paul Benneworth) 17. Attracting power of the academic city. Measurement in the context of economic growth (MikoÅ‚aj Herbst) 18. Innovative Potential of Kyiv (Olga Mrinska) 19. University and regional development in Northern European peripheries (Kazimierz MusiaÅ‚) 20. Making research work for local sustainability in Europe (Anna Rok and Cristina Garzillo)
Biography
Roberta Capello is Full Professor of Regional Economics at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy.
Agnieszka Olechnicka is Assistant Professor at the Centre for European Regional and Local Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland.Grzegorz Gorzelak is Professor and Director of the Centre for European Regional and Local Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
