European Regional Science Association
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The abstract for paper number 531:
Michael S. Dahl, Bent Dalum, DRUID, Dept. of Business Studies, Aalborg University, , Denmark, Håkan Ylinenpää, Dept. of Business Administration and Social Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, , Sweden
The Role of University-Industry Links And Regional Policy: Comparing Three Regions with Comprehensive Technical Universities
This paper studies and compares the university-industry linkages in three Nordic regions. The regions of Luleå (Sweden), Aalborg (Denmark), and Oulu (Finland) all have comprehensive universities with technical faculties and are similar in their demographic properties. The study shows that the technical parts of universities have strong linkages with the development of the local industry. Luleå has an industrial structure with a dominating traditional industry that is reflected in the focus of the local university. Aalborg has traditionally been an outer region with a narrow industrial base with manufacture of building materials, tobacco, and food. However, in the recent two-three decades the region has slowly been going thru a transition with more activities in the electronic industry, which have traditionally been a strong research area of the university. In Oulu the local industry has boomed around the strong research positions in electronics of the local university and the important “locomotive function” played by the Nokia corporation. All studied cases in different ways illustrate how activities in a region may be understood d to be closely connected with the activities of the local universities.
Unfortunately full paper has not been submitted.