The increase in the last decades of the weight of the creative industries and knowledge-intensive sectors (KIS) in the economies of metropolitan areas is transforming the dynamics of urban development, for access of these sectors to agglomeration economies, such as skilled labor and good...

In his 2002 book, High Noon, economist and former World Bank vice president Jean Francois Rischard stressed that in order to address urgent, global issues, the world nedded "imagination and a different type of thinking"-and needed it within two decades, not five or ten.

In a reference framework towards the knowledge economy concept and in relation to the notion of Regional Innovation System (RIS), we consider a set of European regions that in the last two decades experienced a process of economic and industrial renewal, with a two-fold aim. Focusing on the time...

In a reference framework towards the knowledge economy concept and in relation to the notions of Regional Innovation System (RIS) and Triple Helix, the purpose of this paper is to identify different paths of regional change with the aim of drawing some indication supporting local policy making....

In changing societal contexts, systems and institutions of higher education are in need of reorientation. In this article, it is argued that part of the search for reorientation in the South African higher education system is confronted by two overlapping processes: national transformation on...

Policy challenges facing African universities are well documented and relate to such issues as curricula, governance, funding, roles and expectations. To meet these challenges calls for radical and strategic changes that will impact on the overall policy and practice of universities as presently...

This paper examines the phenomenon of international R%D collaboration in the form of cross-national patenting. Using a unique dataset on patents from the USPTO for a maximum of 125 countries over the period 1975-2005, we show that, despite the potential for technological advancement arising from...