Prof. Helen Lawton Smith has recently contributed to a roundtable discussion on “How higher education can harness and empower the UK’s research and innovation clusters”, organised by Times Higher Education and Huawei.

This workshop will feature a set of presentations showcasing research use of the HE-BCI dataset, as well as the researchers’ views on what additional features they would find valuable in their own research. This will be followed by a discussion featuring academic researchers, practitioners, and representatives from HESA.

The EU-funded THEI2.0 project comparatively analysed the user experiences of two tools designed to support the entrepreneurial university. Prof Colette Henry describes the key takeaways.

A one-day workshop is being organized by Dr Federica Rossi (Birkbeck Department of Management) and Dr Abhijit Sengupta (Surrey Business School) in partnership with the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) focussing on the HE Business and Community Interaction (HE-BCI) data set, its ongoing HESA led review and future plans.

The starting point for this special issue was the lack of analysis of the contribution of university students to regional economies. Collectively the papers offer an understanding of the effects of student activity upon the knowledge, skill and entrepreneurial bases of regions.

In their new paper, Federica Rossi and Abhijit Sengupta analyse what kinds of interventions are associated with greater diversification, or conversely greater specialization, in universities’ knowledge exchange profiles.

In a recent article, Federica Rossi and Valentina Goglio (Studies in Higher Education, 2018) discuss the economic impact of university … More