Fourth post on Witty Review and Partnerships for Progress 4. UK Competitiveness and the “Local Dynamics of Innovation” The national Enhancing Value Task Force work through CIHE and UK-IRC delivered a report in 2011 on the UK’s R&D Landscape (Alan Hughes and Andrea Mina). This made sobering reading. While the UK has the lowest … Read more
Third post on Witty Review and Partnerships for Progress 3. The Diversity of Universities Benefits Growth The Witty Report states that ‘The full diversity of institutions have a role to play from local SME support and supply chain creation to primary technology leadership and breakthrough invention’. Among the ‘Heat Maps’ in Part 2 of the … Read more
GLOBAL UNIVERSITY NETWORK FOR INNOVATION (GUNI) Conference on University Engagement 2013 Blog series, third post Reconceptualising Knowledge Day 2 of the GUNI conference finished with a plenary focussed ‘Enlarging the Concept of Knowledge’. Cristina Escrigas, Jesus Granados and Francois Vallaeys held that typically we are currently using a rather chaotic form of knowledge exchange, fragmented … Read more
HOW GOOD IS HIGHER EDUCATION AT LISTENING TO THOSE OUTSIDE ACADEME? Universities must learn to Listen / Escuchar better – this was the recurring message from the conference….. This is the first of a series of posts on the 2013 Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI) Conference on university engagement, and the range of issues it addressed 335 delegates from … Read more