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Universities in Europe: Innovation and Economic Development

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  • Helen Lawton Smith

    (School of Management and Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX. E-mail: h.lawton-smith@bbk.ac.uk Tel: 020 7631 6770)

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This paper reviews the issues concerning the agenda around the relationship between universities in Europe and industry. It places the discussion in the context of the European Union’s Lisbon Agenda (2000) of raising national expenditures on research and development to create the ‘Europe of Knowledge’ and the Bologna Agreement of 1999 on the European Higher Education Area. It sets out to consider what factors might inhibit the success of such strategies designed at overcoming Europe’s problems at the interface between universities and industry, hence universities’ potential impact on innovation and economic development. Examples from some of the EU15 countries illustrate the problems for Europe in developing an integrated strategy.

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  • Helen Lawton Smith, 2007. "Universities in Europe: Innovation and Economic Development," Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, , vol. 18(2-3), pages 239-264, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jinter:v:18:y:2007:i:2-3:p:239-264
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