It has become almost trivial to assert that in the knowledge society universities are important institutions. This … challenges that such countries and their universities are facing. Both in the developed and the developing countries the main … emphasis is now on how universities may serve industry through direct flows of information from on-going research. To …

The economic impact of universities on regional development can be due to their backward-linkages (e. g. regional … the other hand. Topics of the first chapter in this book are the variety of transfer channels between universities and … universitiesand their surrounding regions. In recent years, the concept of the so called "third mission" of universities (in addition …