Universities and colleges as economic drivers  measuring higher education's role in economic development / 
edited by Jason E. Lane and D. Bruce Johnstone ; foreword by Nancy L. Zimpher. 
 - Albany :  State University of New York Press,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource (xxi, 316 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - Critical issues in higher education .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Higher education and economic competitiveness /  The diversity of university economic development activities and issues of impact measurement /  Pitfalls of traditional measures of higher education's role in economic development /  On the measurement of university research contributions to economic growth and innovation /  University-industry-government collaboration for economic growth /  The convergence of postsecondary education and the labor market /  The essential role of community colleges in rebuilding the nation's communities and economies /  The international dimensions of higher education's contributions to economic development /  Unanticipated consequences of university intellectual property policies --  Jason owen-smith --  The impact of the 2008 great recession on college and university contributions to state and regional economic growth /  Jason E. Lane --  Thomas Gais and David Wright --  Peter McHenry, Allen R. Sanderson, and John J. Siegfried --  Maryann P. Feldman, Allan M. Freyer, and Lauren Lanahan --  Laura I. Schultz --  Anthony Carnevale and Steven Rose --  James Jacobs --  Jason E. Lane and Taya L. Owens --  D. Bruce Johnstone. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781438445021 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education, Higher--Economic aspects.<br/>Academic-industrial collaboration.<br/>Economic development--Effect of education on.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LC67  / .U558 2012