The
overarching research question, underlying the U-Know project,
is to what extent are factors such as specific types of knowledge,
institutional arrangements, organisational conditions, incentive
systems, cognitive flexibility, as well as network alignment:
- a source
of the public and private good properties of knowledge,
- fostering
or hindering knowledge creation and use,
- drivers
or barriers to knowledge transfer and innovation,
- and
finally shaping new understandings of knowledge itself.
The
U-know project focuses on the interrelatedness of the enterprise,
public science/higher education, and governmental spheres. We
apply the ‘Network Alignment’ approach as a tool to
understand the role of knowledge for European competitiveness.
Network alignment has arguably been a key ingredient for economic
growth in some East Asian countries. Building on this experience,
the research team undertakes comparative studies to identify missing,
anti-developmental or mis-aligned networks in selected industrialised
and transitional European economies. Thereby, we take sectoral,
regional, as well as economy wide perspectives. This constitutes
a key underpinning for extensive policy development. |
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