John Goddard

Newcastle University | NCL · Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies

Universities are quintessentially urban institutions and cannot avoid a relationship with the myriad of other institutions and communities that also inhabit the city, including local authorities responsible for the place in the round, businesses, and civil society.This author explores the changing nature of links between the university and the city...

The study of the dual responsibilities of universities at local and global level has been the objective of this 6th HEIW GUNI Report on “Towards a Socially Responsible Higher Education Institution; globally and locally engaged”. In this final chapter, the editorial team makes a joint reflection from all the contributions and give a set of recommend...

Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local aims to analyse the dual responsibilities of universities at local and global level, exploring the potential conflicts and intrinsic difficulties in addressing both the local demands of society based on the race for global competitiveness and the local and global demands...

Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local aims to analyse the dual responsibilities of universities at local and global level, exploring the potential conflicts and intrinsic difficulties in addressing both the local demands of society based on the race for global competitiveness and the local and global demands...

This innovative book addresses the leadership and management challenges of maximising the contribution of universities to civil society both locally and globally. It does this by developing a model of the civic university as an academic concept, drawing out practical lessons for university management on how to embed civic engagement in the heartlan...

This article reports evidence from two studies conducted in nine British universities into individual academic and institutional perspectives on research impact. We analyse our findings in the context of global developments in performance measurement. Mechanisms for assessing the quality of research and associated knowledge exchange serve a dual pu...

The paper examines universities as anchor institutions in the context of a major upheaval in the funding of English higher education. The various components of these changes are combined into a multivariate indicator of institutional vulnerability for universities in England. This is then linked to a classification of university cities to identify...

Universities have a potentially pivotal role to play in the social and economic development of their regions. They are a critical ‘asset’ of the region; even more so in less favoured regions where the private sector may be weak or relatively small, and has low levels of research and development activity. Evidence shows that the successful mobilisat...

Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts - on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores these impacts and in the process seeks to expose t...

This paper suggests that the core principles contained in the Smart Specialisation concept represent a set of challenges, tensions and opportunities for the position of universities in regional innovation strategies. These potential issues are discussed focusing on three particular elements of Smart Specialisation: the collective 'entrepreneurial p...

Against the backdrop of low growth and prolonged austerity the LEPs face a formidable challenge, especially in places where structural unemployment is already a problem. However, as the perspectives in this monograph demonstrate the 39 LEPs, although arguably still in their infancy, are working hard to find local solutions which draw in extra inves...

The paper discusses the drivers and barriers behind university engagement in city and regional development and the role of leadership in building bridges between the university and civil society in a particular place. It draws upon ongoing OECD reviews of the role of universities in city and regional development which have highlighted the leadershi...

The paper examines the role of Technology and Innovation Centres (TICs) in bridging the gap between the university research base and industry in order to foster economic development in a lagging industrial region. The context is provided by an academic literature on the role of universities in regional innovation systems, some of which casts doubt...

This paper draws on material from an OECD programme of reviews to examine the drivers and barriers to engagement by higher education institutions (HEIs) in the economic and social development of selected European cities. This is set in a context of recent academic debates about broader concepts of territorial development and the societal role of un...

The article examines university partnerships with the community from the perspective of their contribution to the economic, social, and cultural development of localities (cities and regions). It explores the drivers behind such partnerships from both the university and the locality perspectives, the barriers to effective working, and how these bar...

Across the OECD, countries, regions and higher education institutions (HEIs) are discovering each other. More and more partnerships are being established based on a growing appreciation of shared interests. This paper explores the drivers behind such engagement, from both HEI and regional development perspectives, the barriers to effective working...

The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the OECD or its Member Countries. 1 This Peer Review Report is based on the review visit to the Jyväskylä region in Finland in January 2006, the regional Self-Evaluation Report, and other background material. As a result, the report reflects the situation up to that period. T...

The article will argue that external engagement with business and the community poses major challenges for the institutional management of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The world outside of academia, in business, central and local government, health, welfare and the cultural and community sectors increasingly expect an institutional as dist...

European universities have three main tasks: education, research and service to the community.This last element of their mission is becoming more and more important, and the pressure on universities to engage in activities related to regional development is increasing. The creation of knowledge is not something that a university does in isolation:...

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This paper is developed from a presentation to the Academia Europaea Conference `Virtual University? Educational Environments of the Future', Wenner Gren Foundation, Stockholm, 14-16 October, 1999. for knowledge creation and distribution. The university, as an institution appears to dissolve. This agenda has implications for the whole university. I...

The authors explore the bases for regional engagement by universities in the light of structural change within higher education and ongoing debates about the nature of regional economic development. They focus on the implications for a university's relationship with its region of the New Labour policy environment within England as set out in a seri...

This report was commissioned from the Committee of Vice-chancellors and Principals to provide an overview of the activities of UK universities in supporting their local regions and communities. It examines the changing environment for universities, how universities define their local community, the local economic impact, engagement with local econo...

This paper contains a consideration of some of the implications of the emerging information economy for quantitative geography. The vast increase in computer data bases creates exciting new prospects for applied analysis relevant to public policy and private organisations. An attempt is made to identify where these new opportunities are located, to...

This paper attempts five tasks. First, it briefly traces the collapse of regional economic planning since the mid 1970s. Second, it re‐assesses the case for regional economic planning. Third it asks whether a statutory economic development role for local authorities is the way forward. Fourthly, it critically evaluates current practice in economic...

Deals with the EECs policy efforts to promote productive capacity in Europe in high-tech industries and also to ensure the maximum uptake of the technologies throughout Europe. Begins with a review of the emerging 'Information Economy' and considers its implications for regional development. It then outlines developments in the telecommunication te...

This paper discusses the revolutionary nature of information technology which affects the what, where and how of the production and delivery of goods and services. It suggests that it is virtually impossible to come to any quantitative assessment of the nature and timing of the impact of these technological changes on individual cities. What is mor...

This paper provides an overview of the 1986 Domesday project. The intention is to document the origins of the major research effort that is culminating in the BBC publishing video discs which aim to reflect all aspects of Britain in the mid-1980s. The paper outlines the prominent role of geographers in the design and fulfillment of key features of...

Summarizes an attempt to come to grips with methodological and practical problems of defining a set of functional urban regions for use in the 1981 Population Census of Britain. The first section discusses the conceptual problems that invariably arise in any regionalization exercise. This leads to the suggestion that the 'daily urban system' is the...

The theoretical issues of an earlier paper by the authors concerningdaily urban systems are now followed by the problems of applying this concept to British data. The complexities of the British urban system pose difficulties for any approach which prohibits overlapping areas, multinodal regions, and recognition of the differing travel patterns of...

The utility of data based on areal units, such as British censuses, depends at least as much on the definition of these areal units as on the variables measured. The discontinuation of the local-authority areas used for all previous censuses allows a radical evaluation of the alternative areas for census-data presentation. A conceptual basis is dis...

Goddard J. B. and Pye R. (1977) Telecommunications and office location, Reg. Studies , 11, 19--30. The paper briefly reviews the role of communications in office location decisions and the possible effects of relocation on business contacts. These effects are elaborated by reference to surveys of office communications patterns in different location...

Goddard J. B. (1970) Office communications and office location: A review of current research, Reg. Studies 5, 263--280. The paper first establishes the growing importance of office type activities, the role of communications in office location and the problem of assessing the likely impact of future telecommunication systems on location. Three basi...

This paper examines the problem of measuring the relationship between movement patterns and the location of activities within the city centre. Emphasis is placed on the problem of defining and analysing complex linkage systems. Data on taxi flows are presented as a single indicator of multi-faceted functional linkages within Central London. Cartogr...

The virtual university has emerged as a potent vision for the future of higher education, utilising new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to radically restructure higher educational provision. What is envisaged in this scenario is a "university without walls". Freed from the confines of the campus and its region, the university beco...

Incl. abstract, bibl. Across the OECD countries, regions and higher education institutions (HEIs) are discovering each other. More and more partnerships are being established based on a growing appreciation of shared interests. This paper explores the drivers behind such engagement, from both HEI and regional development perspectives, the barriers...

Goddard J. (1968) Multivariate analysis of office location patterns in the city centre: A London example, Reg. Studies 2, 69–85. This paper considers the problem of defining the linkages that bind firms together in close spatial cohesion in the city centre. It suggests that these linkages constitute a definable activity system and attempts to speci...