The Street-Wise University: The Amsterdam Knowledge Mile as an Intermediary and Place-Making Concept

Willem van Winden, Iris Hagemans and Patricia van Hemert
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Willem van Winden: Centre for Applied Research on Business and Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Iris Hagemans: Centre for Applied Research on Business and Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Patricia van Hemert: Centre for Applied Research on Business and Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 8, issue 8, 1-16

Abstract: Universities have become more engaged or entrepreneurial, forging deeper relations with society beyond the economic sphere. To foster, structure, and institutionalize a broader spectrum of engagement, new types of intermediary organizations are created, going beyond the “standard” technology transfer offices, incubators, and science parks. This paper conceptualizes the role of such new-style intermediaries as facilitator, enabler, and co-shaper of university–society interaction, making a distinction between the roles of facilitation, configuration, and brokering. As a case study, the paper presents the Knowledge Mile in Amsterdam as a novel form of hyper-local engagement of a university with its urban surroundings that connects the challenges of companies and organisations in the street to a broad range of educational and research activities of the university, as well as to rebrand the street.

Keywords: engaged university; entrepreneurial university; living lab; intermediation; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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