Research universities in the United States have increasingly become involved in economic
development since the mid-1980s. There has been a corresponding growth of interest in …

To explore the contradictions and problems apparent in contemporary policy towards
universities, this article reviews two parallel but related debates: the debate about …

In this paper we propose simple diagnostic tests, based on ordinary least-squares (OLS)
residuals, for spatial error autocorrelation in the presence of a spatially lagged dependent …

" The first edition of Researching Higher Education has been a very helpful resource for
those trying to make sense of the field of higher education. Malcolm Tight has accomplished …

The impact of universities on the economic wellbeing and innovative potential of regions has
been the object of intense scholarly and policy interest in the last years. Despite this interest …

This article analyses the effect of knowledge spillovers from academic research on regional
innovation. Spillovers are localized to the extent that the underlying mechanisms are …

The volume on New Directions in Spatial Econometrics appeared in 1995 as one of the first
in the then new Springer series on Advances in Spatial Sciences. It very quickly became …

Should countries or regions (generically," states") invest more in education to promote
economic growth? Policy makers often assert that if their state spends more on educating its …

Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at
regional level and reaches conclusions as to why some regions grow and others decline …

Using data for US metropolitan statistical areas, an earlier study of aggregate local
geographic research spillovers generated by universities (Anselin et al. 1997) was extended …