The Role of Universities in the Regional Creative Economies of the UK: Hidden Protagonists and the Challenge of Knowledge Transfer
The Role of Universities in the Regional Creative Economies of the UK: Hidden Protagonists and the Challenge of Knowledge Transfer
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10.1080/09654313.2013.790589
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发表时间：
2014-10
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
R. Comunian;Calvin Taylor;David Smith
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作者：
R. Comunian;Calvin Taylor;David Smith
知识-产业-政府关系的三螺旋模型是解释创新和增长的制度框架变化的最全面的尝试之一，特别是在区域和城市背景下。自20世纪70年代以来，整个欧洲都在制定政策，以发展这种制度格局。自20世纪90年代末以来，区域和城市发展战略也试图利用文化和创意产业的增长潜力来促进区域和城市的经济发展。然而，虽然区域和城市规划文献已经非常仔细地研究了大学促进增长的潜力，但它们在区域和城市创意经济发展方面可能发挥的作用却很少受到关注。本文旨在通过对大学与区域创意经济之间关系的探讨来解决这一差距，作为起点，本文采用了三螺旋理论框架提出的分析模型。论文发现，虽然大学与区域和城市创意活动有着长期而隐蔽的联系——作为隐藏的主角——但它们作为区域和城市创意经济的新参与者，在发展明确而可持续的角色的可能性方面，存在着重要的制度和专业挑战。本文确定了这些挑战的性质，以期更清楚地了解支撑艺术和人文学科中知识创造-实践关系的复杂动态的系统、政策和制度现实。
Abstract The Triple-Helix model of knowledge−industry−government relationships is one of the most comprehensive attempts to explain the changing institutional frameworks for innovation and growth, especially in the regional and urban contexts. Since the 1970s policies have been developed across Europe to evolve this institutional landscape. Since the late 1990s, regional and urban development strategies have also sought to harness the growth potential of the cultural and creative industries to regional and urban economic development. However, whilst the regional and urban planning literature has examined the growth-promoting potential of universities very closely, their possible role in relation to regional and urban creative economic development has received less attention. This paper aims to begin addressing this gap by interrogating the relationship between universities and the regional creative economy using, as a starting point, a model of analysis suggested by the Triple-Helix theoretical framework. The paper finds that whilst universities possess often long and hidden associations with regional and urban creative activities—as hidden protagonists—there are important institutional and professional challenges in the possibility of their developing an explicit and sustainable role as new actors in the regional and urban creative economies. The paper identifies the nature of these challenges with a view to developing a clearer understanding of the system, policy and institutional realities that underpin the often complex dynamics of knowledge creation−practice relationships found in arts and humanities disciplines.