Understanding the Regional Contribution of Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development 09-Jul-2007 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ English-Or. English DIRECTORATE FOR EDUCATION UNDERSTANDING THE REGIONAL CONTRIBUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

The role of higher education institutions in regional transition paths towards sustainability

“…The results underline that the investigated HEIs have not been engaged in RTPS in a holistic organisational sense, but a selected number of institutes and individual HEI members are active, thereby confirming the multilevel structure (Arbo and Benneworth 2007) of these highly complex silos (Denman 2009) with numerous autonomous subunits.…”

“…In other words, agency and particular conditions enable the interventions by individual actors to trigger more structural evolution (Genus and Coles 2008;Gibbs 2006). Arbo and Benneworth (2007) pinpoint that a significant part of HEIs' regional potential lies in the fact that they are often not purely regional bodies but are multiscalar in nature, integrating the global, national and regional scale. They localize elements of both, "local nodes" and "global networks" (Späth and Rohracher 2012).…”

A qualitative approach to examining the rules of a community college and industry partnership.

“…However, solutions for responding to this concern cannot be universally applied. Businesses and their employees are developed on a regional scale (Arbo & Benneworth, 2007;Hayter, 1997;Porter, 2000). Regional economies are primarily responsible for the execution and development of the pillars, such as infrastructure, health of residents, primary and higher education, and business sophistication and innovation, described by the World Economic Forum (2015), because they are a product of institutions and policies (Hayter, 1997;Porter, 2000).…”

“…Regional characteristics that have been identified as most helpful in the improvement of business productivity and efficiency is access to a qualified workforce and to a research or educational development center, such an institution of higher education or professional association (Arbo & Benneworth, 2007;Hayter, 1997;Porter, 2000). Partnerships between educational institutions and industry have been repeatedly referred to as resources for improving the workforce development pipeline and enhancing the innovative nature of industry (ACT, 2011;Lamos, Simon, Waits, Fulton, & Bird, 2010;Soares, 2010;Vandal, 2009).…”

“…Within those pillars, education plays an important role in preparing citizens to be a part of the workforce and enhance the innovativeness of industry (Arbo & Benneworth, 2007;Hayter, 1997;Porter, 2000;Schwab et al, 2011;Schwab et al, 2014).…”