Introduction: An Overview of the Research

Oswald Jones, PingPing Meckel () and David Taylor
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Oswald Jones: University of Liverpool
PingPing Meckel: University of Central Lancashire
David Taylor: Manchester Metropolitan University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Creating Communities of Practice, 2021, pp 1-11 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the early years of the twenty-first century, a number of UK reports stressed the importance of universities making a bigger contribution to economic development and growth (DfES 2003; DTI 1998, 2000; Lambert 2003). Incorporation of the ‘third mission’ (Clark 1998; Lambert 2003; Van Vught 1999), which encouraged universities to become integral to regional economic development, formalised a process that was widely adopted in the USA (Etzkowitz 1998; Henry 1998). In addition, changes to UK government funding regimes promoted ‘the third mission’ to the top of the agenda for Vice-Chancellors (Woollard et al. 2007). For example, involvement with the New Entrepreneur Scholarship (NES) enabled a number of universities to develop innovative programmes designed to support individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds start their own businesses (Jayawarna et al. 2011). More recently, Paolini et al. (2019: 197) stressed the importance of ‘relational capital’ as the means by which universities ‘promote and emphasise the effectiveness of the third mission’.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62962-5_1

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