Approach to Regional Economic Development: Aiming for University-Region New Educational Partnership
The purpose of this paper is to show how a University-centered approach to regional economic development is able to turn the region itself into an innovative organization. I focus on how the public university functions in an economically depressed region where education constitutes most of the regions social and economic capital. I will suggest a way the university can foster regional development; it can act by establishing a regional learning network to serve industry and the local communities. The method both involves human capital development and social capital development. The point is to be able to construct confidential networking of know-how within the region, in other words, social capital. I use the Lowell region as an example which demonstrates how the methods work, since Lowell has experienced repeated boom and bust cycles that have periodically depleted the local economic and social capita, and the region has recovered several times by parleying its knowledge-based assets, as exemplified in its institutions of higher learning. I am going to use the case study of Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML).
innovation outreach learning region revitalization
Takeharu KIYOSHI
Regional Industrial Studies, Regional Studies (Doctoral Course), Graduate School of Hirosaki University Hirosaki City, Aomori 036-8560, Japan
国际会议
广州
英文
389-396
2008-12-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）