出版社：AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
摘要：With flourishing prognostications about an impending global knowledge economy, it would be well neigh impossible to disagree with Samuel Johnson’s averment that “[t]he future is purchased by the present.” Being as we are on the brink of entering a mature era dominated by knowledge, can universities, as creators of knowledge, be isolated and complacent? There is a growing section of literature that has been recognising the positive impact universities can have on the local / regional economy by improving the region’s human capital in addition to aiding firms in commercialising inventions. This book too belongs to this genre of economic literature that advocates University-Industry Links (UILs). Yusuf and Nabeshima, both from the World Bank, have brought together seventeen essays that “examine the role of university in enhancing technological capability…and to discuss the policy measures being applied…” [Preface].
