Innovation and expertise: experiences from a formative evaluation
May, T. & Perry, B. (2011). Innovation and expertise: experiences from a formative evaluation. Conference abstract presented at the Second Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance Knowing Governance: The Making of Governance Knowledge and the Transformation of Politics, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Berlin, Germany, 19-20 May 2011.
The dynamics of the knowledge-based era have combined with those of a multi-scalar international political economy to produce the ‘glocalisation’ of science (Swyndegouw, 1992). Public policies at supra-national and sub-national scales have been re-populated through a new jargon of clusters, knowledge spill-overs, innovation and knowledge transfer, as science and technology are seen to be revolutionizing approaches to urban and regional development. The emphasis is on reorienting economies to build science regions and enhance urban growth through alliances between universities, industries and policy-makers. Within this context universities are increasingly required to operate at a number of spatial scales, interweaving international, national and sub-national roles (Benneworth and Hospers, 2007).
May, T., & Perry, B. (2011). Contours and conflicts in scale: Science, knowledge and urban development. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 26(8), 715-720.
