• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Universities and strategic knowledge creation : specialization and performance in Europe
  • Contributor: Bonaccorsi, Andrea [Other]; Daraio, Cinzia [Other]
  • Corporation: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • imprint: Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar, c2007
  • Published in: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    PRIME series on research and innovation policy in Europe
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 492 p); ill., charts
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.4337/9781847206848
  • ISBN: 9781847206848
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  • Keywords: Universities and colleges Europe ; Research Europe ; Knowledge management Europe ; Electronic books
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Transversal topics -- pt. 3. National patterns -- pt. 4. Methodological issues, tools and data platform.

    Although the role of universities in the knowledge society is increasingly significant, there remains a severe lack of systematic quantitative evidence at the micro-level, with virtually all policy discussion based on country level statistics or case studies. This book redresses the balance by examining original data from universities in six European countries – Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK