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Knowledge transfer and the
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Knowledge transfer and the enterprising university |
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Stafford and Manchester, 6–11 March 2005 (event 0413) |
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Universities of the 21st century increasingly need to generate new income. Traditionally, this is achieved from state subsidy, student fees and research income. However, many universities do not have enough state income to support all their aspirations and, for new universities, there has not yet been enough time to create a research base which can generate commercialisable inventions or processes. Many universities are obliged in this demanding environment to develop other sources of income for their survival.
This is the second in a series of three seminars looking at the enterprising university, although applications are welcome from participants who did not attend the first seminar. The seminar will focus on the study of knowledge transfer activity which can lead to generating new funding streams (known as Third Stream Funding), either from developing joint venture partnerships with private industry or from directly selling goods, services and marketing campus facilities. The emphasis in this seminar is on studying these practical applications in situ and hearing from a number of university business clients on how a relationship with a university can enhance their growth and innovativeness while providing new sources of income to the university.
The first part of the week will be based around Staffordshire, a ‘new’ university; and the second part will be held in Manchester and Liverpool, more ‘traditional’ universities.
This has been designed as a stand-alone seminar, looking at the implementation of enterprise policy. It will be of particular interest to those who have to generate additional income at universities. It is primarily aimed at enterprise policy-makers in universities, heads of universities and high-level administrators who wish to see ‘third stream’ policy in action. However, it also provides an excellent follow up to the seminar entitled ‘Enterprise, the university and cultural change’ held at the University of Warwick in June 2004 where the focus was on enterprise policy. |
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