Within recent years, there has been a rapid expansion of the University's role in economic
development. This has resulted in University Technology Transfer (UTT) taking place within …

Executive summary This paper examines 187 pieces of research published between 2012
and 2016. 1 It describes how the subject of employability has been addressed during this …

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is widely considered instrumental in equipping new
graduates with the required employability skills to function effectively in the work …

Many new graduates are finding it difficult to obtain graduate‐level work and impossible to
break into the sectors they were aiming at. In order to address this, higher education …

This paper investigates the impact of publicly funded university–industry collaboration on UK
firms' R&D effort. We test the hypotheses that project participation has a positive effect on …

Universities are in a current state of transition, whereby they are expected to develop a wide
range of relationships with stakeholders in order to enhance regional innovation systems …

“The present-day university has become a hot topic in several sociology, anthropology and
philosophy subfields. Filip Vostal's debut monograph on the institutional transformations and …

The potential for a functional 'triple helix'to contribute to economic development is being
increasingly accepted and embraced, particularly the bilateral relationship between higher …

Our introduction provides the foundation and background for this special issue on open
innovation. Since the beginning of the 21st century, innovation has evolved from being the …

In this paper we explore how the 'employable'student and 'ideal'future creative worker is
prefigured, constructed and experienced through higher education work placements in the …