Conference Report

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 319-322
Author(s):  
Gareth Potts
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Action Knowledge ◽  
Development Unit ◽  
Enterprise Training ◽  
Knowledge And Technology Transfer ◽  
The University ◽  
North London

‘University—Enterprise Partnerships in Action: Knowledge and Technology Transfer — Economic and Social Development’, organized by CAPITTAL (COMMETT University—Enterprise Training Partnership for London, based at the University of North London Economic Development Unit and Innovation Centre), London, 22–23 June 1995

Innovative Players in Economic Development in Europe

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 285-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Mitra ◽  
Piero Formica
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Commercial Sector ◽  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
History Of University ◽  
Development Unit ◽  
History Of ◽  
Knowledge And Technology Transfer ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry

This article analyses the behaviour of ‘learning’ companies and ‘entrepreneurial’ universities in the context of the territorial and business ecosystems of innovation in which they are involved. Against a background of the fundamental differences between the higher education and the commercial sector, and the history of university—industry cooperation in Europe, the characteristics of territorial ecosystems for innovation (TEIs) are set out and the holistic, networking and interactive models of knowledge and technology transfer are discussed. This analysis provides a conceptual framework for the successful development of territorial ecosystems of innovation which are identified as crucial for future successful European socio-economic development. As concrete examples of activities which contribute towards this end, the authors offer brief case studies of the Economic Development Unit and Innovation Centre at the University of North London and the London Technopole Initiative.

Knowledge and Technology Transfer Support Potential of Intermediate Organizations

2015 ◽  
pp. 143-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Kesting ◽  
Bernd Wurth
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Technology Transfer Offices ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Knowledge And Technology Transfer ◽  
Marketing Service ◽  
The University ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

This chapter aims at analyzing and optimizing the requirements of the internal environment regarding university-business cooperation (UBC). It focuses on university Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs), intermediate organizations embedded within the university environment. They support knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) activities, particularly the commercialization of research-based products. TTOs are supposed to accelerate and facilitate KTT from science into business practice. Although literature on university research commercialization highlights the relevance of transfer support by TTOs, empirical studies and KTT practice show that TTO services are used rather sparsely. Based on theoretical considerations and results of recent empirical studies on KTT, this chapter discusses two practice cases to derive indicators for a better exploitation of unused KTT support potential of TTOs. The results show that personal engagement aimed at a marketing service provider philosophy emerges as the key factor for fostering and intensifying cooperation between researchers and TTOs.

The influence of universities on the demographic and social development of regions and the labor market

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Ю.В. Данейкин ◽  
О.П. Иванова ◽  
А.С. Зарецкая ◽  
А.Ю. Рожкова
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
External Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The University

В настоящее время нарастает тенденция необходимости включения университетов в решение актуальных задач пространственного, кадрового, социального и технологического развития территорий присутствия. Вузы становятся не только образовательными центрами регионов, они оказывают существенное влияние на изменение общества и внешней среды, как на уровне субъектов федерации, так и на уровне страны в целом. В статье предложена модель методики оценивания вклада университета в социальное и экономическое развитие региона. Currently, there is a growing tendency of the need to include universities in solving urgent problems of spatial, personnel, social and technological development of the territories of presence. Universities are becoming not only educational centers of the regions; they have a significant impact on changes in society and the external environment, both at the level of the constituent entities of the federation and at the level of the country as a whole. The article proposes a model of the methodology for assessing the contribution of the university to the social and economic development of the region.

Anatomy of the entrepreneurial university

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Etzkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
Firm Formation ◽  
Academic Involvement ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The University

This article analyzes the evolution of the entrepreneurial university from a narrow focus on capturing the commercializable results of the ‘meandering stream of basic research’ to a broader interest in firm formation and regional economic development. No longer limited to schools like MIT, specialized for that purpose, entrepreneurial aspirations have spread to the academic mainstream. Academic involvement in (1) technology transfer, (2) firm formation and (3) regional development signifies the transition from a research to an entrepreneurial university as the academic ideal. As universities become entrepreneurial, tension arises between this new role and that of teaching and research as it has between research and teaching. Nevertheless, the university coheres as each of these new missions has fed back into and enhanced previous tasks.

scholarly journals PROFESSORS OF PRACTICE: REINVENTING THE PROFESSORIAL ROLE

Engevista ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Dzisah ◽  
Henry Etzkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Science Departments ◽  
Entrepreneurial Role

There is an ongoing transformation of the university to add value and strengthen teaching, research and technology transfer capabilities. However, one means of enhancing the university’s new social and economic development mission is by reinventing the professorial role through the concept of ‘Professors of Practice’. Initially used to bring distinguished practitioners into the university as teachers, the concept is now being applied to research and entrepreneurship. ‘Professors of Practice’ may link business and science departments and provide entrepreneurial role models for faculty and students.

2011 BEEF FORAGE SURVEY RESULTS

EDIS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja C. Crawford ◽  
Christa L. Kirby ◽  
Tycee Prevatt ◽  
Brent A. Sellers ◽  
Maria L. Silveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
South Florida ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Development Unit ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
County Extension ◽  
Ranch Management ◽  
The University

The University of Florida / IFAS South Florida Beef Forage Program (SFBFP) is composed of county Extension faculty and state specialists.  The members, in conjunction with the UF/IFAS Program Evaluation and Organizational Development unit, created a survey in 1982, which is used to evaluate ranch management practices.  The survey is updated and distributed every 5 years to ranchers in 14 South Florida counties: Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Okeechobee, Polk, and Sarasota.  The responses are anonymous.  

Social Recourses of the Population under Conditions of Losing Economic Stability

2015 ◽  
pp. 86-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Avraamova ◽  
T. Maleva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Safety Margin ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Development Stability ◽  
Made In

The loss of country’s socio-economic development stability puts on the agenda the problem of finding solutions contributing to the maintenance of Russian households’ welfare. The authors believe that these solutions lie in the broader area than applying various instruments of monetary support. The most effective solutions are related to the actualization of own resources of households that can act as a safety margin as well as a source of social development. The attempt to evaluate the households’ resource provision and highlight the significance of each resource enabling or creating barriers to the growth of households’ welfare is made in this article. On the basis of received conclusions social policy areas directed at preserving or enhancing the welfare are defined.

Peculiarities of improving interbudgetary relations in conditions of authorities’ decentralization

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
Zenoviy Siryk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
The State ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Local Areas ◽  
And Control ◽  
Different Levels

Ukraine is a unitary state, yet historically various regions, oblasts, districts, and local areas have different levels of economic development. To secure sustainable economic and social development and provide social services guaranteed by the state for each citizen according to the Constitution, the mechanism of redistribution between revenues and expenditures of oblasts, regions, and territories through the budgets of a higher level is used. The paper aims to research the peculiarities of improving interbudgetary relations in conditions of authorities’ decentralization. The paper defines the nature of interbudgetary relations. The basic and reverse subsidies to Ukraine and Lvivska oblast are analyzed. The advantages and disadvantages the communities face at changing approaches to balancing local budgets are determined. Regulative documents that cover the interbudgetary relations in Ukraine are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the problem of local finances reforming, including the development of interbudgetary relations. The scheme of the economic interbudgetary relations system in Ukraine is developed. The ways to improve the system of interbudgetary relations in Ukraine are suggested. The negative and positive aspects, advantages, and disadvantages of the system of interbudgetary relations in Ukraine require the following improvements. 1. It is necessary to avoid the complete budget alignment in the process of budgets balancing by interbudgetary transfers as the major objective. 2. The interbudgetary transfers should be distributed based on a formal approach. 3. The changes have to be introduced to the calculation of medical and educational subsidies in terms of financial standard of budget provision to avoid the money deficit for coverage of necessary expenditures. 4. There is a need to improve interbudgetary relations at the levels of districts, villages, towns, and cities of district subordination. 5. Improvement of the mechanism of targeted benefits provision, their real evaluation, and control for the use of funds.

Growth and Social Capital: Empirical Analysis of the Relationship

2019 ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Ksenia V. Bagmet
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Level Of Economic Development

The article provides an empirical test of the hypothesis of the influence of the level of economic development of the country on the level of development of its social capital based on panel data analysis. In this study, the Indices of Social Development elaborated by the International Institute of Social Studies under World Bank support are used as an indicators of social capital development as they best meet the requirements for complexity (include six integrated indicators of Civic Activism, Clubs and Associations, Intergroup Cohesion, Interpersonal Safety and Trust, Gender Equality, Inclusion of Minorities), comprehensiveness of measurement, sustainability. In order to provide an empirical analysis, we built a panel that includes data for 20 countries divided into four groups according to the level of economic development. The first G7 countries (France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom); the second group is the economically developed countries, EU members and Turkey, the third group is the new EU member states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania); to the fourth group – post-Soviet republics (Armenia, Georgia, Russian Federation, Ukraine). The analysis shows that the parameters of economic development of countries cannot be completely excluded from the determinants of social capital. Indicators show that the slowdown in economic growth leads to greater cohesion among people in communities, social control over the efficiency of distribution and use of funds, and enforcement of property rights. The level of tolerance to racial diversity and the likelihood of negative externalities will depend on the change in the rate of economic growth. Also, increasing the well-being of people will have a positive impact on the level of citizens’ personal safety, reducing the level of crime, increasing trust. Key words: social capital, economic growth, determinant, indice of social development.

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