Harvey Goldstein

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The attitudes of university faculty towards the expansion of universities’ missions to include assisting regional economic development and technology development by knowledge commercialization are analysed. Based upon surveys of faculty in the EU and in the United States, as well as secondary data on the institutional characteristics of universitie...

The expansion of universities' missions to include the support of regional economic development has led to conflicts between traditional norms of open science and the norms of entrepreneurialism, as well as placing university faculty in situations of potential conflict of interest. We posit that there are important differences between how universit...

The article links the nature of planning as a discipline, the quality of planning scholarship, and the training of our doctoral students in research methods. Deficiencies in research methods training that were identified by the Commission on the Doctorate in 1993 probably have not been ameliorated and may have expanded. A set of recommendations for...

In the increasingly competitive, knowledge-based economy, universities have a variety of potential roles for stimulating economic development beyond teaching, research and technology development. In this article we focus on universities’ role as actors in the governance of local and regional development. Using recently developed theories about the...

GOLDSTEIN H. A., LOWE N. and DONEGAN M. Transitioning to the new economy: individual, regional and intermediation influences on workforce retraining outcomes, Regional Studies. The problem of helping workers employed in older manufacturing sectors shift to jobs in growing, high-technology sectors continues to frustrate workforce and economic develo...

Workforce intermediation has emerged as a potential tool for guiding labor market adjustment. This article presents an empirical test of workforce intermediation through a study of community colleges in North Carolina. It demonstrates the positive contribution of intermediary colleges in increasing access to jobs in the pharmaceutical and bioproces...

University researchers are now considered by many as key actors in the building of knowledge economies in their regions, as universities are assumed to be important engines of regional economic well-being. Yet within the academy not all faculty are accepting of these roles for their institutions, for a variety of reasons. We measure faculty attitud...

A Web-based survey of faculty at all ACSP schools is used to assess the value peers place on various journals. The results of the survey show that two journals—the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Journal of Planning Education and Research—dominate all others in importance. The authors analyze the survey data to identify how the...

We test the hypothesis that academic entrepreneurship, resisted in the past by some as being in conflict with the long-standing Mertonian norms of open science and free enquiry, has now become widely accepted within the academy, or `taken for granted', as an institutional shift. Using responses to a series of attitudinal questions about academic en...

In the last 20years many research universities in the US have added regional business and economic development as a core mission to the traditional ones of instruction and scholarly research. It has been claimed by many critics, however, that this ‘entrepreneurial turn’ presents conflicts with long established academic norms, procedures, and reward...

Much of the existing empirical research on industry clusters focuses on the detection of clusters for economic development purposes. There are comparatively few studies that relate identified clusters to business and industry growth or that trace changes in designated clusters over time. This article seeks to better understand the link between indu...

Problem: As Richard Florida's writings about the creative class garnered attention across the globe, planners and local government officials responded by enacting policies to attract and retain creative workers, often favoring spending for amenity and lifestyle attractions over more established economic development approaches. It is not clear, howe...

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 measuring the impacts of higher education on regional economies. This article reviews the approaches used to examine the influence of research universities on regional economi...

Some scholars maintain that academic planning has strayed from its technical and professional roots by becoming more aligned with the social sciences. Others suggest that the discipline has failed to develop a cogent identity. The authors evaluate these assertions by studying articles published in the Journal of the American Planning Association be...

This article describes a new multi-institutional program in international planning education and exchange—the Network for European-U.S. Regional and Urban Studies—within the broader context of the continuing internationalization of graduate-level professional planning curricula. Using student exit interviews and an institutional survey, the outcome...

Since the mid-1980s, academic interest in the relationship between knowledge produc­ tion within a region and the region's economic growth and development performance and prospects has burgeoned. The reasons for this increased interest include dramatic changes in the global economy and conditions of regional competitiveness, the in­ creased importa...

As American colleges and universities have increasingly become involved in economic development since the mid-1980s, there has been a concomitant growth of interest in measuring the impacts of higher education on regional economies. This study examines the influences of 4-year colleges and universities in the United States at the metropolitan level...

Occupational employment projections are one of the primary products produced by state labor market information agencies to assist with state and regional job training and worker assistance programs. In theory, the information from occupational employment forecasts should improve both interregional and intertemporal labor market efficiency through b...

Universities potentially contribute to regional economic development in a number of ways: research, creation of human capital through teaching, technology development and transfer, and co-production of a favourable milieu. We find that the research and technology creation functions generate significant knowledge spillovers that result in enhanced r...

There are a number of alternative techniques for developing regional industry employment projections. Selecting the most appropriate technique involves trade-offs among cost, data requirements, comprehensibility, versatility, theoretical validity, reliability, and accuracy. Single-equation regression models represent a "best-buy" alternative for ma...

Science/technology (or research) parks have become a prominent element in regional development strategies. Most existing studies of these parks are anecdotal, or focus on parks as real estate ventures only. No study we have seen attempts to analyze the types of regional development outcomes we can expect from science/technology parks and how and wh...

Input-output analysis, which is useful for estimating particular types of economic impacts generated by universities and other higher education institutions, is reviewed. The use of input-output analysis at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is illustrated. Several limitations are discussed. (MLW)

Federal transportation officials assert that labor protections in the Urban Mass Transportation Act inhibit the propensity of local transit agencies to contract with private firms for services. The authors present results from a survey of a large sample of transit managers and econometric analysis to support their conclusion that labor protections...

The pursuit of industrial policies to revitalize state and local economies brings with it a series of policymaking realignments that deserve the attention of planners. Although considerably different views now revolve around the question of industrial policy, all anticipate greater involvement of producer interests (variously defined) and movement...

This article is focused on two important measures of dynamic change which affect economic development policy and with which planners are generally unfamiliar: uneven business cycles of expansion and contraction and shifts in the underlying structure of metropolitan economies. The importance of these measures is traced to a series of national and in...

We use a triangulation strategy and a series of complementary indicators and measures of spatial association for varying geographic units to identify and document sub-regional concentrations of technology-related employment, research, and applied innovation within and immediately adjacent to the 406 county service area of the Appalachian Regional C...