Doctoral Dissertation Research: Interactions between Higher Education Systems and Industry for Regional Economic Growth/Development

鉴于人们普遍认识到个人技能、组织知识和技术创新的经济重要性增加，高等教育系统在经济增长和发展理论和实践中越来越受到重视。高校被公认为人力资本的重要提供者和产业创新的贡献者，产业创新是带来经济增长和发展的关键。许多区域经济增长/发展政策追求高等教育系统与工业之间更紧密的联系。本研究的目的是了解不同区域环境下高等教育系统在区域经济增长和发展中的作用：不同企业规模、不同质量的大学和学院、物理和组织距离、产业与大学/学院之间的技术匹配以及区域制度安排对各种企业战略的影响。将考察美国大都市地区信息技术相关领域和行业部门的不同渠道(劳动力供应、职业培训、研究合作和衍生产品)和不同地区高等教育系统与行业之间的互动。将分析包括专利引用在内的次要数据，并将向三个案例研究领域的大学/学院和公司进行邮寄问卷调查。这项研究应该有助于理解高等教育系统在提供人力资本和促进产业创新方面的作用。它将提供企业和高等教育机构在互动中的战略指示，并有助于制定反映不同地区大学/学院和行业特点的产业-高等教育系统互动的区域政策。本研究成果将对区域经济增长与发展领域的实践者具有一定的参考价值。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究生涯。

Given the widely recognized increase in the economic importance of individual skills, organizational knowledge, and technical innovation, higher education systems have been increasingly emphasized in economic growth and development theory and practice. Universities and colleges are recognized as important providers of human capital and contributors to industrial innovation, a key to bring economic growth and development. Many regional economic growth/development policies pursue closer links between higher education systems and industry. The purpose of this research is to understand the role of higher education systems in regional economic growth and development under different regional settings: various firm strategies influenced by firm size, universities and colleges of varying quality, physical and organizational distance, technological match between industry and universities/colleges, and regional institutional arrangements. Diverse channels (labor supply, occupational training, research collaboration, and spin-offs) and different geographies of interactions between higher education systems and industry will be examined in Information Technology-related fields and industry sectors for metropolitan areas in the U.S. Secondary data including patent citation will be analyzed, and a mail questionnaire survey will be conducted both to universities/colleges and firms in three case study areas. This research should contribute to understanding the role of higher education systems in providing human capital and fostering industrial innovation. It will provide an indication of strategies of firms and higher education institutions in their interactions and contribute to building regional policies for industry-higher education system interactions that reflect characteristics of universities/colleges and industry in different settings of regions. The results of this study will be valuable to practitioners in the field of regional economic growth and development. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.