b336a53425 The CBIs Higher Education unit stirred up the debate via the release of a major report titled Stronger Together Businesses and Universities in Turbulent Times. As noted on the Wisconsin Institutes website: The institutes will build on the long tradition of interdisciplinary research at UWMadison. Secondly the head of the institution must articulate that ambition clearly and become personally engaged with the city and region. Professor Thomas has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol since 2001. To this end, I am pleased that as a Task Force we have made a strong commitment to provide the support needed to help students build the employability and technical skills that are so important. This is so for the current University Strategy, and will be strengthened in our Plan for 20092016.
Saxenian, author of some key books on regional development (Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128) as well as skilled migration (The New Argonauts), links the tightening of borders to the possible emergence of challenges to US universities to recruit the best and the brightest foreign students. In reality, universities can only be one part of the process of producing a successful knowledge economy. It is natural that many immigrants wish to return home. Professor Thomas is currently a member of the Board of the South-West Regional Development Agency. Jacobs recent piece (Interdisciplinary hype) in the Chronicle of Higher Education. This approach to higher education formalizes and institutionalizes (at a scaled up level) what some programs or schools are currently attempting to do in many countries (see, for example, Susan Robertsons entry A creative combination: adding MBAs and art schools together to increaseinnovation). It is a compound of capitalist enterprise, technical and legal services, skilled labour, a broad range of social provision in the public domain, local and state government policy, the appetites of an historically entrepreneurial culture, and maybe even climate.
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