DOCSLIB.ORG

Oecd Blue Sky Iii

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Oecd Blue Sky Iii OECD BLUE SKY III INFORMING SCIENCE AND INNOVATION POLICIES TOWARDS THE NEXT GENERATION OF DATA AND INDICATORS AGENDA AND BIOGRAPHIES Follow us on Twitter: @OECDInnovation #BlueSky3 Monday 19 September 8:15-9:00 Registration and networking 9:00-9:30 Welcome to Ghent and the OECD Blue Sky Forum Room 1: Refter Anne De Paepe, Rector, Ghent University Elke Sleurs, State Secretary for Poverty Reduction, Equal Opportunities, People with disabilities, Urban Policy and Science Policy, Belgium. Mari Kiviniemi, OECD Deputy Secretary General 9:30-9:50 Keynote remarks: The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, Canada 9:50-10:30 Blue Sky keynote lecture: Luc Soete, former Rector Magnificus of Maastricht University, the Netherlands 10:30-11:00 Networking break: Poster gallery, science maps exhibit Keynote Remarks Kirsty Duncan is currently the Minister for Science, Canada. She previously was an Associate Professor of Health Studies at the University of Toronto and the former Research Director for the AIC Institute of Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management. She also sat on the Advisory Board for Pandemic Flu for the Conference Board of Canada, and the University of Toronto. Minister Duncan is passionate about helping build resilient communities and taking action on climate change. She has helped provide food, shelter and education to Toronto's youth, and served on the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Minister Duncan holds a doctorate in geography from the University of Edinburgh. Notes _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Page | 2 Welcome to Ghent and the OECD Blue Sky Forum Anne De Paepe was elected as the first female Rector of Ghent University and has held this position since 1 October 2013. She is a Professor of Human and Medical Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University and also the Director of the Centre of Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital. As Ghent University Rector, she is a member of various boards and councils at Ghent University. She is also an active governor in the world of hospital management. She is a member of the Scientific Research Council of the King Baudouin Foundation, of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Princess Lilian Foundation and is a member of the Jury of the Inbev-Baillet-Latour prize for clinical research. Elke Sleurs is State Secretary for Poverty Reduction, Equal Opportunities, People with disabilities, Urban Policy and Science Policy, Belgium. She graduated as a gynaecologist at the Free University of Brussels and further specialized at the University of Aberdeen and the Michigan State University. She practiced as a specialist in prenatal ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis in the university hospitals of Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp. Elke Sleurs also resides in the Ghent City Council since 2012. Locally, she is working on issues such as health, poverty and prostitution in Ghent. She is a member of the Commission for Education, Personnel and Facilities Management, the Committee on General Affairs and Population and the Committee on Health, Work and Environment. Mari Kiviniemi took up her duties as OECD Deputy Secretary-General on 25 August 2014. She is responsible for the strategic oversight of the OECD’s work on Efficient and Effective Governance; Territorial Development; Trade and Agriculture, as well as Statistics. She is also responsible for advancing the Better Life Initiative. Ms. Kiviniemi was Finland’s Prime Minister from 2010 to 2011. Previously, she was Special Advisor on Economic Policy to the Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Minister for European Affairs and Minister of Public Administration and Local Government. An economist by training, she studied political science at the University of Helsinki and holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences. Blue Sky keynote lecture Luc Soete is the former Rector Magnificus of Maastricht University (until 1 September 2016). Professor Soete is also the Chairman of the Research, Innovation, and Science Policy Expert (RISE) High Level Group, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Formerly, he was a member of the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (AWTI) – until end of 2015. Professor Soete has been widely published in theoretical, empirical and policy analysis of innovation. In 1988, he founded the Maastricht Economic Research centre on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), which became integrated in 2005 into UNU-MERIT. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent, the University of Liege and the University of Sussex. Page | 3 Monday 19 September 11:00-12:00 Plenary 1: Science and Innovation policy-making today: What big questions are begging for an answer? Room 1: Refter Moderator: DSG Mari Kiviniemi, OECD Deputy Secretary General Keynote remarks: Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal Panellists: Maryann Feldmann, University of North Carolina, and National Science Foundation, United States Paula Stephan, Georgia State University, United States Sadao Nagaoka, Tokyo Keizai University and Japan Patent Office, Japan Keynote Remarks Manuel Heitor has been Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education in the Government of Portugal since November 2015. Dr. Heitor is full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, IST, University of Lisbon and was founder and director of the IST´s ‘Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research’, as well as director of the IST´s doctoral Programs in Engineering and Public Policy, EPP and in Engineering Design. Notes _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Page | 4 Mari Kiviniemi took up her duties as OECD Deputy Secretary-General on 25 August 2014. She is responsible for the strategic oversight of the OECD’s work on Efficient and Effective Governance; Territorial Development; Trade and Agriculture, as well as Statistics. She is also responsible for advancing the Better Life Initiative. Ms. Kiviniemi was Finland’s Prime Minister from 2010 to 2011. Previously, she was Special Advisor on Economic Policy to the Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Minister for European Affairs and Minister of Public Administration and Local Government. An economist by training, she studied political science at the University of Helsinki and holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences. Maryann Feldman is the Program Officer at the National Science Foundation’s Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) Program and the S.K. Heninger Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Feldman is widely published in her areas of expertise; innovation and economic growth, technological change and the relationship between academia and industry. She holds doctorate degrees in economics and management, a master’s degree in management and policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University and an undergraduate degree in economics and geography from Ohio State University. Sadao Nagaoka is a professor in the Faculty of Economics at Tokyo Keizai University and a Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). He is currently a visiting research scholar at NISTEP, the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy and an economic advisor to the Japan Patent Office (JPO). Professor Nagaoka conducts his research on patent system design, invention and R&D management, and discovery process in science. Dr. Nagaoka holds a doctorate of economics and master of management degree from MIT and an undergraduate degree in engineering from the University of Tokyo. Paula Stephan is a research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2012 Science Careers selected Stephan as their first “Person of the Year”. She has been published in numerous journals and her book ‘How Economics Shapes Science’, has been translated into Korean and Chinese. Dr. Stephan’s research interests focus on the careers of scientists and engineers and the process by which knowledge moves across institutional boundaries in the economy. Dr. Stephan graduated from Grinnell College (Phi Beta Kappa) with a B.A. in Economics and earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. Page | 5 Monday 19 September 12:00-13:15 Plenary 2: Scope and limits of indicator use by STI policy Room 1: Refter Innovation is a complex machine, involving several actors and linkages, working differently in different contexts and locations. This session will discuss to what
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Government Technology Procurement and Innovation Theory
    Innovation Systems and European Integration (ISE) A research project funded by the Targeted Socio-Economic Research (TSER) program of the European Commission (DG XII) under the Fourth Framework Program, European Commission (Contract no. SOE1-CT95-1004, DG XII SOLS), coordinated by Professor Charles Edquist of the Systems of Innovation Research Program (SIRP) at Linköping University (Sweden). Sub-Project 3.2.2: Public Technology Procurement as a Policy Instrument Government Technology Procurement and Innovation Theory Submitted to the Commission : March, 1998 Charles Edquist Leif Hommen Department of Technology and Social Change, Linköping University S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden TEL:+ 46-(0)13-282260 FAX:+46-(0)13-284461 E-mail:[email protected] Abstract: The paper deals with public technology procurement as an instrument for innovation and industrial policy. It relates public technology procurement to various innovation theories, concentrating on those contributing to the development of a user-producer interaction perspective on public technology procurement. This perspective is utilized to identify and discuss past problems and future prospects of public technology procurement, at a national as well as a European (EU) level. The concern with developing policy implications is reflected throughout the paper. A number of different national ‘models’ of public technology procurement are compared and contrasted, and the political and institutional problems associated with public technology procurement are explicitly and critically discussed. The EC procurement rules are also discussed in relation to the theory and practice of public technology procurement, in both the main text and a lengthy appendix. The section devoted to policy implications focuses on the EU level.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Report 2019
    ANNUAL REPORT 2019 CIRCLE, Lund University Center for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE) Lund University Page 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................. 2 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR .................................................................................................................... 3 RESEARCH AT CIRCLE ................................................................................................................................. 4 INTERACTION WITH SOCIETY AND POLICY MAKERS .................................................................................. 4 TEACHING AT CIRCLE ................................................................................................................................. 5 PROJECTS AT CIRCLE 2019 ......................................................................................................................... 6 RESEARCH OUTPUT BY CIRCLE EMPLOYEES ............................................................................................... 8 JOURNAL ARTICLES ...................................................................................................................................... 8 BOOKS ................................................................................................................................................... 11 BOOK CHAPTERS......................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Public Procurement for Innovation Publicprocurement Innovation For
    SPINE EDQUIST ET AL Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 22 mm Public Procurement for Innovation for Innovation Procurement Public ‘This is a very timely book! Public procurement for innovation has become a prominent tool of demand side innovation policy in recent years. A better understanding of the underlying Eu-SPRI Forum assumptions and intentions, as well as the opportunities of this bundle of instruments and their on Science, limitations, is highly relevant for both innovation policy analysts, students and practitioners. Technology and The book presents the latest knowledge and insights of world-leading experts in the Innovation field of public procurement for innovation.’ Policy – Stefan Kuhlmann, University of Twente, the Netherlands, President of the European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation Public procurement for innovation (PPI) is a demand side innovation policy instrument. It occurs when a public organisation places an order for the fulfillment of certain functions or needs, which cannot be met at that moment or within a reasonable period of time through a new or Public Procurement improved product. Providing evidence of the benefits to public and private actors from selective use of this policy for Innovation instrument, this book illustrates the requirements and constraints for its operationalization. It significantly improves our knowledge of the key determinants of effective public procurement Edited by aiming to promote innovative capabilities in the supplying sectors and beyond. It also provides case studies and conceptual contributions that help extend the frontier of our understanding CHARLES EDQUIST, NICHOLAS S. VONORTAS, in areas where there are still significant knowledge gaps. JON MIKEL ZABALAITURRIAGAGOITIA Scholars interested in the study of innovation policies and practitioners involved in the design, and JAKOB EDLER implementation and evaluation of PPI will benefit from this state-of-the-art exploration.
    [Show full text]
  • 1. Proceedings-Finance
    Contemporary Issues in Economy 9 Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Economics: FINANCE edited by ADAM P. BALCERZAK, ILONA PIETRYKA Toruń, Poland HONORARY PATRONAGE THIS PUBLICATION WAS COFUNDED BY CITY OF TORU Ń The project implemented with Narodowy Bank Polski under the economic education programme Contemporary Issues in Economy 9 Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Economics: Finance edited by Adam P. Balcerzak, Ilona Pietryka 2017 Toru ń, Poland Cover Design Nikodem Pr ęgowski The Proceeding is indexed in: Economic Publishing Platform; RePEc EconPapers Books and Chapters; Google Scholar © Copyright by Institute of Economic Research Website: http://www.contemporary-issues.pl/proceedings DOI: 10.24136/eep.proc.2017.2 (eBook) ISBN 978-83-65605-05-4 ISSN 2544-2384 (Online); 2544-2392 (CD-ROM) Publisher Institute of Economic Research e-mail: [email protected] www.badania-gospodarcze.pl // www.economic-research.pl ul. Kopernika 21 87-100 Toru ń Poland Conference Organizers Institute of Economic Research Nicolaus Copernicus University Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management Polish Economic Society Branch in Toru ń and Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic), Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology (Greece), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of World Economics (Hungary), Kaunas University of Technology (Lith- uania), Pablo de Olavide University (Spain), University of Economics in Bratislava (Slovakia) in cooperation with Pan-European University (Slovakia), Private Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Technik (Germany), Riga Technical University (Lat- via), Tomas Bata University in Zlín (Czech Republic), University of Economics and Culture (Latvia), University of Entrepreneurship and Law (Czech Republic) INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS European Regional Science Association Slovak Society for Operations Research Scientific Committee Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic) doc.
    [Show full text]
  • Download PDF (53.7
    Contributors Yannis Caloghirou is Professor of Economics of Technology and Industrial Strategy and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He has acted as a scientific coordina- tor in a number of European research projects in the broader area of socioeconomic research. He has served in top policy- making positions in Greece, among them as Secretary General for Industry and as Secretary for the Information Society. He has sat in a number of European Union (EU) high- level expert and policy groups, among them in the expert group on Public Procurement for Research and Innovation. He was also co- Rapporteur of the EU High- Level Policy Group on the Socio- Economic Benefits of the European Research Area. Moreover, he has extensive work experience in industry as well as in policy advisory and policy design and evaluation positions. Professor Caloghirou has written extensively on topics related to his research in scholarly journals, edited books and the popular and business press. Jakob Edler is Executive Director of MIoIR (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research) at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, and Professor of Innovation Policy and Strategy. His field of activity and publication comprise: eval- uation and conceptual development of research, development and innovation policies, demand- based innovation policy and public procurement, European innovation policy and modes of governance; comparative research on internationalization strat- egies in science and technology policy; internationalization of industrial research and development (R&D) and public research, knowledge supply and technology transfer; industrial knowl- edge management and patent strategies.
    [Show full text]
  • UNIVERSITIES of TECHNOLOGY in POLAND 1 Poland Facts and Figures
    UNIVERSITIES OF TECHNOLOGY IN POLAND 1 poland facts and figures OFFICIAL NAME LOCATION TIME ZONE Republic of Poland (short form: Poland is situated in Central CET (UTC+1) Poland, in Polish: Polska) Europe and borders Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, CALLING CODE POPULATION (2019) Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania +48 38 million and Russia. INTERNET DOMAIN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ENTERED THE EU ACCESSION .pl Polish 2004 STUDENTS (2018/19) CAPITAL CURRENCY (MAY 2019) 1.23 million Warsaw (Warszawa) 1 zloty (PLN) 1 PLN = 0.23 EUR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS GOVERNMENT 1 PLN = 0.26 USD (2018/19) Parliamentary republic 78.3 thousand Warsaw ● UNIVERSITIES OF TECHNOLOGY IN POLAND PAGE 2 PAGE 5 PAGE 7 WHY HIGHER POLISH POLAND? EDUCATION CONTRIBUTION IN POLAND TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PAGE 13 PAGE 14 PAGE 62 UNIVERSITIES DEGREE ACCREDITATION OF TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMMES & QUALITY MINIGUIDE IN ENGLISH ASSURANCE WHY POLAND? Are you planning to study engineering abroad? Are you looking for high-quality engineering and technology degrees provided by experienced and inspired teachers? Good, then you have the right brochure in front of you! This publication explains briefly what the Polish higher education system is like, introduces univer- sities of technology in Poland, lists the degree programmes that are taught in English and presents some of the many reasons for international students to choose Poland. ACADEMIC TRADITION degree or a diploma programme, you will receive a Diploma Supplement in English. Foreign students Poland’s traditions of academic education go studying in Poland stay fully mobile and can back to 1364, when King Casimir the Great continue their education anywhere else within the established the Cracow Academy, known today European Union.
    [Show full text]
  • Destructive Creation
    Innovation, Europe and Policy Reflections on innovation studies Luc Soete Maastricht University The Netherlands UNU-MERIT 25th anniversary, Vaeshartelt, 28th November, 2014 First a parenthesis on long waves and my days at SPRU • Long waves: I had my own personal interpretation of long wave performance that got most interest and comments from Marie Jahoda, Chris Freeman and Keith Pavitt: – Based on an article of Marie Jahoda in Futures on generation conflicts; – Proposals for alternative thoughts on marriage across generations – a first draft was written, never published though... • Wouldn’t dare to go in more technical details here but the main idea was that men and women were intertemporarily “mismatched”: men displayed a long cyle of (sexual) boom and dust; women by contrast witnessed a continuous gradual growth path leveling of at mid-life but staying more or less constant till old age. • Marie Jahoda and I therefore proposed to reform marriage from two to three, now with intergenerational partners: a younger man, a middle-aged woman and an older man, over time opposite sex partners would be added, so in the next phase a younger women, a middle aged man and an older woman. • Our proposal would reduce divorce rates, solve intergenerational conflicts, reduce child raising and household costs and increase social cohesion in society. • Unfortunately the paper on the Jahoda-Soete cycle was never published... The Jahoda-Soete cycle • In line with the long wave hype of the time at SPRU, we considered a four phase cycle: – In the first phase
    [Show full text]
  • 00 Pre Techno & Future Euro
    Contributors Bruno Amable is a professor at the University of Lille 2 and a researcher at CEPREMAP, Paris, France. Robert Boyer is a CNRS director of research at CEPREMAP and at EHESS, Paris, France. Eve Caroli is a researcher at INRA/LEA and CEPREMAP, Paris, France. Ü.D. Efendioglu is a researcher at INTECH, UN University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Christopher Freeman is an emeritus professor at SPRU, University of Sus- sex, Brighton, UK. Donatella Gatti is a researcher at WZB, Berlin, Germany. Michael Landesmann is a professor at the University of Linz and scientific director at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Vienna, Austria. Ivo De Loo is an assistant professor at the Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands. Huub Meijers is a senior researcher at MERIT and in the Department of Economics and Business Administration of Maastricht University, The Neth- erlands. Lars Mjøset is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, and a researcher at the ARENA project, University of Oslo, Norway. Joan Muysken is a professor in the Department of Economics and Business Administration of Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Pascal Petit is a CNRS director of research at CEPREMAP, Paris, France. Mario Pianta is a researcher at CNR-ISRDS, Rome, and a professor at the University of Urbino, Italy. Giovanni Russo is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. xv Pascal Petit and Luc Soete - 9781781950999 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/24/2021 04:52:12PM via free access xvi Contributors Mark Sanders is a researcher at MERIT and in the Department of Econom- ics and Business Administration of Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
    [Show full text]
  • Abstract: Knowledge Sharing: a Global Challenge
    Parallel working group: Knowledge Sharing Knowledge sharing: a global challenge Luc Soete (UNU-MERIT) Abstract While there remains a huge concentration of knowledge production activities in the developed countries, the last twenty years have seen a major shift in world wide access to codified knowledge. The role of information and communication technologies has been instrumental here, as has been that of more capital and organisational embedded forms of technology transfer such as foreign direct investment. Today one of the most important enabling features for development is knowledge access. Access is, however, not required to knowledge under such codified or capital embedded forms alone, but also to the tools and (legal) ability to replicate and improve upon knowledge. For developing countries it is no longer access to knowledge as passive producers/consumers which fitted well with the old development model where developing countries would be treated as consumers who would not have the ability to innovate or, if more industrially advanced, would imitate production methods developed elsewhere. The cases reviewed in the paper show that while access to codified knowledge may build skills through passive absorption (e.g. through textbooks), access to technology in a form that can be shared and modified without entry barriers can build advanced skills and compensate for the absence of formal training. While access to knowledge as a passive process is politically framed within the language of development aid, access to technology as a way of providing the right and ability of participation is analogous to the arguments favouring free trade: developing countries can then be seen as providing a resource of potential innovators, rather than merely using existing innovations from the developed world.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Report 2009
    Annual Report 2009 Center for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University P.O. Box 117, Sölvegatan 16, S‐221 00 Lund, SWEDEN www.circle.lu.se Annual Report 2009 Center for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University Sölvegatan 16, Box 117, 221 00 Lund, SWEDEN www.circle.lu.se TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Research: Thematic overview .................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Research retreat ........................................................................................................................................ 5 1.3 Publications ...............................................................................................................................................6 1.4 CIRCLE seminars 2009 ............................................................................................................................. 7 2. CIRCLE People and Expertise 2009 .............................................................................................................. 9 3. New people and appointments 2009 ............................................................................................................ 13 3.1 New employees during 2009 ....................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Member State University Austria University of Innsbruck Belgium Free University of Brussels Bulgaria Sofia University "St.K
    Member state University Austria University of Innsbruck Belgium Free University of Brussels Bulgaria Sofia University "St.Kliment Ohridski" Croatia Sveučilište u Zagrebu (University of Zagreb) Cyprus University of Cyprus College of International and Public Relations Prague Czech Republic University of Economics in Prague Palacky University in Olomouc University of Southern Denmark Aarhus University Aalborg University Copenhagen University - Humanities Denmark Copenhagen University - Political Science Roskilde University Copenhagen Business School Technical University of Denmark Estonia Tallinn University of Technology Hanken Scool of Economics University of Helsinki University of Tampere Åbo Akademi University Finland University of Turku University of Eastern Finland University of Lapland University of Vaasa University of Oulu Member state University Université d’Aix-Marseille IEP Aix ESC Montpellier Faculté de droit de Grenoble ISIT Paris IEP Lille IEP Lyon ESPOL France Institut catholique de Paris Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris) IEP Strasbourg IEP Toulouse Université François Rabelais Tours Université de Toulouse Capitole Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Skema Business school Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Freie Universität Berlin Ruhr-universität Bochum Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Germany Universität zu Köln Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Universität Passau University
    [Show full text]
  • MICROFOUNDATIONS of ACADEMICS' NETWORKS: INITIATION, EVOLUTION and CONTEXT R. AHOBA-SAM Doctor of Philosophy 2020
    MICROFOUNDATIONS OF ACADEMICS’ NETWORKS: INITIATION, EVOLUTION AND CONTEXT R. AHOBA-SAM Doctor of Philosophy 2020 This page has been intentionally left blank MICROFOUNDATIONS OF ACADEMICS’ NETWORKS: INITIATION, EVOLUTION AND CONTEXT RHODA AHOBA-SAM A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Lincoln for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2020 DECLARATION This is to certify that: I. this thesis represents work originally conducted by me towards the PhD; II. in instances where joint work is presented, due acknowledgement is offered in the text; III. all materials have been attributed due acknowledgement; IV. the thesis is less than 100,000 words in length, inclusive of tables, figures, bibliographies, appendices and footnotes. Rhoda Ahoba-Sam iii ABSTRACT The world over, universities are increasingly challenged to make economic contributions to their host cities. Universities are particularly the target of this challenge because of the belief that knowledge intensive institutions are critical to the building of a knowledge-based economy and thus increasing regional competitiveness. Subsequently, the weight placed on universities has resulted in a stretch in universities’ traditional missions of research and teaching to include a third mission. This so-called third mission is operationalised in universities’ engagement with their communities as characterised by collaborations with industry partners, among others. It is understood that by establishing close ties with industry for instance, both entities could together improve the fortunes of their communities through problem solving and creativity that contribute to innovation. Simply, University-Industry Collaborations (UICs) play a key in the regional innovation process. This thesis takes a determined stance.
    [Show full text]