Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Universities and Regional Innovation: From Policy to Practice Building Capacity for Collaborative Partnerships
The
positive impact of effective regional innovation on economic growth, employment
and social stability is recognised everywhere. The ability to build capacity for collaborative
partnerships and to exercise strong leadership in
order to bring together a variety of regional stakeholders behind a common
regional strategy is "the" critical step for regional success.
This one-day conference will focus on the challenges involved in building and sustaining successful cross-sectoral partnerships between academic, business and public agencies to support regional innovation. The conference will draw on lessons learned from the EU-Drivers for a Regional Innovation Platform project.
The conference format will be highly interactive, with expert international keynote speakers, panelists and senior representatives from the European Commission.
With practical interactive sessions it will provide participants the opportunity to try out "on the ground" the lessons learnt from the EU-Drivers project; each participant will receive a copy of the EU-Drivers toolkit with good practices to support effective transformational regional innovation.
In our pre-conference reception, networking breakfast and poster sessions, the conference will provide ample opportunities for direct exchange between regional, university and business leaders as well as access to EU policy-makers.
For more information and online registration, please check here.
This one-day conference will focus on the challenges involved in building and sustaining successful cross-sectoral partnerships between academic, business and public agencies to support regional innovation. The conference will draw on lessons learned from the EU-Drivers for a Regional Innovation Platform project.
The conference format will be highly interactive, with expert international keynote speakers, panelists and senior representatives from the European Commission.
With practical interactive sessions it will provide participants the opportunity to try out "on the ground" the lessons learnt from the EU-Drivers project; each participant will receive a copy of the EU-Drivers toolkit with good practices to support effective transformational regional innovation.
In our pre-conference reception, networking breakfast and poster sessions, the conference will provide ample opportunities for direct exchange between regional, university and business leaders as well as access to EU policy-makers.
For more information and online registration, please check here.
Friday, 25 May 2012
Graduates' Strategy
“ You are not a volunteer and the university is not a charity. You are paid for hours of work; do not exceed them. Teach well, but do not make teaching the core of your identity.“ and....keep smiling :)
Tussle between university rankings and community engagement by Yojana Sharma
Universities that want to engage in regional development, community
outreach or even philanthropic support say they first have to overcome
the ‘tyranny’ of international university rankings, which mainly value
research output and give little credit for helping to transform society,
including reducing poverty and inequity.cont. reading
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