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Building Knowledge Cities: the Role of Universities

How can mutually productive relationships between universities and their host cities be developed? And what are the factors which shape university-city relationships in diff erent contexts? This issue of Built Environment considers the dynamic inter-relationships between policies, places and academic institutions in the context of the knowledgebased economy. ... read more

Change of directorship at CHEPS

After 7,5 years of being the Director of CHEPS (Vakgroepvoorzitter), Prof. dr. Jürgen Enders will step down from this position and will be succeeded by Prof. dr. Hans Vossensteyn as from the 1st of July 2011. Jürgen Enders will continue ... read more

MEASURING THE SOCIETAL IMPACTS OF UNIVERSITIES' RESEARCH INTO ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES (HERAVALUE)

Panel Session at the 2011 CHER Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, 23rd-25th June 2011.
“The Humanities in the European Research Area” Project HERAVALUE (Measuring the societal impacts of universities' research into arts and the humanities) is organising a scientific panel session at the June 2011 Consortium of Higher Education Research (CHER) conference. The session has the same name as the project, and involves four presentations drawn from the first research phase of the project. Further details on the session is available from the Convenor, Dr Paul Benneworth, University of Twente, the Netherlands. ... read more

CHEPS Working Paper published by OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have today published a working paper written by two CHEPS staff. The working paper is entitled “Strengthening
Global-Local Connectivity in Regional Innovation Strategies: Implications for Regional Innovation Policy”, and was ... read more