Higher Education Institutions and Regional Development

Peer, Verena; Penker, Marianne

doi:10.1177/0160017614531145

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“…Historically, some universities have been used as a political instruments to shape economic development (Peer & Penker, 2016). In some cases, higher education institutions have been explicitly created to accelerate regional economic and social development (Peer & Penker, 2016). This role has especially been successful in terms of the regional labour market and regional economy (Peer & Penker, 2016).…”

Section: Review Of the Literature On Higher Education And Sustainabilmentioning

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The role of higher education institutions in sustainability initiatives at the local level

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Vargas

Salvia

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Universities are central players and important economic actors in many regions, and many of them are, in general, nationally and internationally active in respect of matters related to sustainable development. But there is a paucity of research which examines their contributions towards sustainability efforts at the local level, i.e. in the places they are situated. This paper addresses this need, by reporting on a qualitative study deploying a Matrix, which allows an analysis and reporting of regional sustainable development initiatives of a set of 22 universities in industrialised and developing countries. Recommendations to enhance their role are provided, including the importance of pursuing partnerships and joint initiatives, understanding the need of local communities, and making their know-how more widely available. The scientific value of this research is related to the understanding of how the interaction between universities and local communities happens and by shedding light to this topic, it supports universities to improve their own actions. Its implications are twofold: it demonstrates the potential of universities as local players, and outlines the range of activities they may engage with, and which may allow them to act as pillars to local sustainability initiatives.

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Section: Review Of the Literature On Higher Education And Sustainabilmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of higher education institutions in sustainability initiatives at the local level

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Salvia

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“…Scientists (Peer & Penker, 2014;Baughan, 2015;Leonard, Fitzgerald & Riordan, 2016) examine the mechanisms of interaction between universities and employers to ensure sustainable regional development.…”

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Higher Education Curricula Designing on the Basis of the Regional Labour Market Demands

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Youngblood

Khodyreva

et al. 2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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The relevance of the research problem is reasoned by the need to develop conceptual approaches and technologies for designing educational curricula based on current and prospective order for specialists' training from educational services' consumers -regional entities of the labor market. The goal of the article lies in justification of the concepts and techniques of educational curricula designing that are based on joint activities of the University and employers to determine the needs in employees for the regional labor market; to formulate requirements on the basis of professional standards to the qualification characteristics of graduates; to develop the content of the basic professional educational curricula. Leading research methods for this problem were: pedagogical modeling and design, study of the universities' experience, questionnaires, pedagogical experiment, as well as methods of mathematical statistics, which allowed completely, explore the effectiveness of educational curricula design and carry out their correction taking into account the requirements of the regional labor market. The article reveals the concept and technology of educational curricula designing, including pre-project analysis; definition of design idea and construction of the curriculum concept; development of the content and main components of the curriculum and its testing; assessment of the design effectiveness. The role of the regional labor market's entities at different stages of high educational curriculum development is justified. The materials of the article can be useful for the universities' development of the basic professional educational curricula, the basic and optional parts' content of educational curricula; at curricula and projects' development in the sphere of professional education.

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“…The starting point for this paper is the explosion of interest on the role of universities in regional development in recent years (Lawton-Smith & Bagchi-Sen, 2012;Peer & Penker, 2014), asserting that driving regional development represents a (novel) third mission for universities alongside the first (teaching) and second (research) traditional missions (Perkmann et al, 2013). With economic development increasingly dependent on processing and exploiting knowledge capital (Capello & Nijkamp, 2010;Huggins & Izushi, 2013), focus has lain on the actors involved in knowledge production and exploitation (Perry & May, 2010;Yigitcanlar, 2010;Sarimin & Yigitcanlar, 2012).…”

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What makes the difference? Analysing the regional component of the influence of university's structural configuration on its performance

Sánchez‐Barrioluengo

Benneworth²

2015

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There is an increasing interest in the analysis of how universities should maximise their specific regional contribution alongside their traditional teaching and research goals. However, due to the institutional heterogeneity it is necessary to understand the process by which universities create regional benefits, specifically on the creation of third mission outputs, and the extent to which internal institutional configuration affects the production of these benefits. To cover this gap, this study focus on the UK Higher Education sector and investigates the role played by four elements of the universities' structural configuration, namely steering core, administrative machinery, internal coupling and academic heartland, affect institutional performance in two different university models: the entrepreneurial university and the regional innovation system university model.

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Higher Education Institutions and Regional Development

Cited by 51 publications

References 55 publications

The role of higher education institutions in sustainability initiatives at the local level

The role of higher education institutions in sustainability initiatives at the local level

Higher Education Curricula Designing on the Basis of the Regional Labour Market Demands

What makes the difference? Analysing the regional component of the influence of university's structural configuration on its performance

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