Pub Date : 2003-02-01DOI: 10.1080/0269094032000073771
Helen Lawton Smith
This collection of papers is dedicated to the memory of Michel de Bernardy who died in February 2002 in a climbing accident in the mountains above Grenoble. Michel was a first-class academic whose recent work specialised on the relationship between research in science and engineering and territorial development. Key challenges facing universities are the subject of a current discussion paper published by the Department of Education and Skills on the Future of Universities (www.dfes.gov.uk/highereducation/discussion.shtml). This special issue contributes to the debate by reviewing issues relating to universities’ role in local economies. The papers are drawn from experiences in the UK, Italy, Canada and Sweden and provide some opportunity to compare political agendas, policies and practice in the UK with those in other countries. The background to the theme of this special issue is the increasing academic concern about the expectations placed on universities about their role in stimulating economic development. Since the election of the Labour Government in 1997, policy discourses have been concerned with universities’ contributions to regional development while remaining committed to previous Conservative governments’ agendas of commercialisation of research both through increasing links with industry and through academic entrepreneurship. As a consequence, Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) (established in 1999) have appropriated universities as adjuncts to their regional economic strategies (e.g. SEEDA) and in some cases regional
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Pub Date : 2002-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0269094032000166903
J. MacLeavy
Current policy encourages 'partnerships' - between statutory organisations and professionals; public and private sectors; with voluntary organisations and local communities. But is this collaborative discourse as distinctive as the government claims? These claims are critically examined, using evidence from a wide range of welfare partnerships.
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Pub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1080/02690940210161351C
A. Macpherson
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Pub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1080/02690940210161351A
A. Latham
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Pub Date : 2000-09-01DOI: 10.1177/026909420001500305
P. Bishop, Steven Brand, E. Mcvittie
This paper examines the potential use of input–output analysis for the assessment of the local impact of key sectors or industrial clusters. The recent development of models for Devon and Cornwall is discussed together with a case study of the impact of the Devonport naval base/dockyard complex in Plymouth. It is argued that there is a strong case for the further development of such models through partnerships of local organisations concerned with economic development.
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Pub Date : 2000-09-01DOI: 10.1177/026909420001500307
M. Taylor
The four papers that follow were all originally delivered at Local Economy Policy Unit (LEPU) seminars I organised on the theme of capacity building. The papers, in their different ways, all discuss how to move beyond the first flush of enthusiasm for a new initiative, to effectively involve local people in the long run. MarilynTaylor sets the scene, arguing that 10nK term changes in culture are necessary, originating perhaps more from the public sector than the community and voluntary sectors, traditionally seen as the 'weaker' partners. Cultural change
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Pub Date : 1996-11-01DOI: 10.1080/02690949608726339
P. North
LETS at present suffer from a similar problem to the one faced by co-ops a decade ago they are predominantly a "lifestyle statement" as much as a reaction to economic circumstances. LETS could be characterised as the commodification of social networks, the formalisation of the traditional networks that enabled neighbours "to borrow a cup of sugar" from each other in neighbourhoods where now neighbours barely know each other, and need a LETS scheme as a "safe" intermediary. Both co-ops then and LETS now give prominence to the opportunities they afford unemployed people. Yet neither, with a few honourable exceptions, draw their membership from the unemployed. A decade ago further development of the worker co-operative movement was seen as being reliant on a more sympathetic attitude by central government. The situation with LETS is similar; a change of policy by the Department of Social Security in relation to the participation by unemployed people in LETS. On their present profile, changing the benefits rules to enable more unemployed people to participate in LETS would have a minimal impact. While such a change will probably make some difference, the opportunities LETS schemes offer, in terms of the range of goods and services traded, will probably be more significant, particularly access to basic needs that unemployed people would mainly look for, which are currently too limited. None of this is to suggest that LETS have no value, nor indeed that some, like some worker coops, will not thrive and expand into substantial trading networks. But our experiences suggest that current optimism substantially overemphasises their long-term importance in local economies. •
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