edited by Attila Varga (professor of economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pčs and MTA-PTE Innovation and Economic Growth Research Group) and Katalin Erdős (assistant professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pčs, and research fellow, MTA-PTE Innovation and Economic Growth Research Group, Hungary)
Contents: 1. Introduction / Katalin Erdős and Attila Varga -- Part I: Universities as actors in regional development -- 2. A history of the American land-grant universities and regional development / Nathan M. Sorber -- 3. The second academic revolution : antecedents and consequences of academic entrepreneurship / Henry Etzkowitz -- 4. Universities and their economic and social contribution to regional development / Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés -- 5. The transformative role of universities in regional innovation systems : lessons from university engagement in cross-border regions / Jos van den Broek, Franziska Eckardt and Paul Benneworth -- 6. Connections between universities and industry in the United States : trusteeship before and after the Great Recession / Sheila Slaughter and Barrett J. Taylor -- 7. Philanthropic support of higher education : major gifts from high net worth individuals / Emily I. Nwakpuda and Maryann P. Feldman -- Part II: University knowledge transfer mechanisms -- 8. University patenting and the quest for technology transfer policy models in Europe / Catalina Martínez and Valerio Sterzi -- 9. The regional impacts of university spin-offs : in what ways do spin-offs contribute to the region? / Einar Rasmussen -- 10. The under-researched role of alumni spin-off entrepreneurs in upgrading a university's entrepreneurial support structure: essential ingredient or just a decorative accessory? / Arne Vorderwülbecke and Rolf Sternberg -- 11. Scientists as businessmen - can they, should they? / Katalin Erdős -- 12. Networks, innovation systems and the geography of university-industry linkages : the case of knowledge-intensive business services / Andrew Johnston and Robert Huggins -- Part III: Regional case studies from three continents -- 13. Universities, the bioscience sector and local economic development in oxfordshire : challenges and opportunities / Helen Lawton Smith, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Laurel Edmunds -- 14. The pathways and challenges of university engagement: comparative case studies / Harvey Goldstein, Verena Radinger-Peer and Sabine Sedlacek -- 15. The role of mid-range universities in knowledge transfer and regional development : the case of five central European regions / Zoltán Gál and Pavel Ptáček -- 16. Progress of academic knowledge-based entrepreneurship in three minor post- Soviet economies / Annamária Inzelt -- 17. The role of non-research universities in regional innovation systems in China / Yuzhuo Cai, Po Yang and Anu Lyytinen -- 18. Changing higher education systems through corporate social responsibility? A study on multinational enterprises' efforts to establish proto-institutions at vietnamese universities / Jöran Wrana, Moritz Breul and Javier Revilla Diez -- 19. Universities and innovation habitats in Brazil : cases of the pontifical catholic university of Rio de Janeiro and the federal university of Rio de Janeiro / Thiago Renault, Sérgio R. Yates, Leonardo Melo and José Manoel Carvalho de Mello -- Index.
