The following 9 presentations were all given at special sessions on the Impact of Higher Education Institutions on regional economies at the 2008 European Regional Science Association Conference ( Liverpool August 2008.)
1. Applying Circular Statistics to the Study of Graduate Job Search: The Case of Great Britain
Alessandra Faggian, School of Geography, University of Southampton, Jonathan Corcoran, UQ Social Research Centre, University of Queensland, Australia, Philip McCann, Management School, The University of Waikata, New Zealand.
2. The Retention of Graduate Human Capital: An analysis of Graduate Migration Flows in and out of Scotland
Alessandra Faggian, University of Southampton, Cher Li & Robert E Wright, University of Strathclyde
3.Estimating the economic value of the outputs of higher education institutions
Ursula Kelly & Iain McNicoll, University of Strathclyde
4.The Economic Impacts of Higher Education Institutions on Scotland: An Input-Output analysis
Kristinn Hermannsson, Peter McGregor, Nikos Pappas and Kim Swales, University of Strathclyde and Centre for Public Policy Research
5.Sub-regional Impact of Higher Education Institutions - Input-Output simulations of direct impacts on the City of Glasgow
Kristinn Hermannsson, Peter McGregor, Nikos Pappas and Kim Swales, University of Strathclyde and Centre for Public Policy Research ( Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow)
6.University-business links in the U&K: Boundary-spanning, gatekeepers and the process of knowledge exchange
Maria Abreu, Vadim Grinevich, Michael Kitson, Alan Hughes, University of Cambridge, Philip Ternouth, Council for Industry and Higher Education
7.The Regional Pertinence of University-Generated Knowledge
Robert Huggins, University of Wales Institute Cardiff & Andrew Johnston, Sheffield Hallam University
8.Higher Education Institutions & Knowledge Networks: Evaluating Local & Global Knowledge Pipelines
Robert Huggins, University of Wales Institute Cardiff & Andrew Johnston, Sheffield Hallam University
9. The overall regional impact of Scottish HEIs: An illustrative CGE analysis of the impact of their "demographic challenge"
Kristinn Hermannsson, Katerina Lisenkova, Peter McGregor, Nikos Pappas,Kim Swales , University of Strathclyde and the Center for Public Policy Research ( Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow)
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