How can a university be globally competitive and locally engaged:

the Newcastle experience.John Goddard

Emeritus Professor of Regional Development StudiesAnd

NESTA Visiting FellowNewcastle University

Lesson 1

• Use international institutions (e.g. EU, OECD) experience, expertise and status to shape the national agenda

Lesson 2

• Seize windows of policy opportunity and build on them

Value added university management processesValue added regional management processesUniversity/regional dynamic interface

T

R

S

S

I

C

T = TeachingR = ResearchS = Service to the community

S = SkillsI = InnovationC = Culture and community

UNIVERSITY REGION

University/region value added

Lesson 3

• Continue bottom up partnership building and insert these into top down policy initiatives

OECD report

• Higher Education and Regions: Globally Competitive and Locally Engaged

• Sponsored by Education AND Territorial Governance Divisions

The regionally engaged multi-modal and multi-scalar university (after Arbo and Benneworth)

Skills

Culture

National policy

LM

TDP

IND HE

S&T

‘Global’

Academic kudos

‘National’

‘Regional’

‘Science park

HospitalCulture village

Inward investors

Innovation

Lesson 4

• Use outsiders to peer review local partnerships

5 Roles of Universities in Innovation

(National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, UK)

1. Driving forward the research frontier2. Giving people the skills for innovation3. Knowledge exchange and people transfer4. A node in an international network of

knowledge5. Providing regional leadership

– specialisation: focussing on strengths and the needs of regions

Lesson 5

• Universities need access to innovation policy research capacity if they are to realise their potential

Newcastle University: Key Business Drivers

• Maintaining and enhancing position as a research intensive University against strong national and international competition for staff, students and research grants and contracts

• Marketisation of higher education– Research Assessment Exercise– Top up fees, bursaries and scholarships– Local wage bargaining

University Mission

“To be a world-class research intensive University, to deliver teaching of the highest quality and to play a leading role in the economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England”

Business Support

Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Economy

Research

NU Business

Regeneration

Property

Global

Policy

National

Education

Skills

Newcastle University Business and Science City

Lesson 6

• Build a common language that reveals mutual interest

Capital of Culture Bid – University Cultural Quarter

• Creating spaces (buildings) where cultural activities can take place

• Creating places where the university and the community can come together

• Combining university and non-university activities in a collectively managed zone or quarter

Lesson 7

• Ensure that engagement is not confined to science and technology

Transforming Health: International Centre for Life

• Institute of Human Genetics (University of Newcastle)

• NHS Genetics Testing Service• Bioscience Centre - serviced incubator units• Life Knowledge Park• Life! Visitor attraction (Secret of Life Theatre,

Big Brain Show, Life on the Edge ride)• Education resource centre• Politics, Ethics and Life Science Research

Institutes

Institute for Policy Ethics and Life Science

• To enhance public participation in debates around new developments in genetics and life science

• To undertake research on the ethical, legal and social consequences for ordinary people in their everyday life

• To use these public sources and research data to engage in an informed critical and evaluative development with scientists and policy makers.

Key Assets: leading edge science, social science and strong regional identity

Lesson 8

• Develop new ideas in a laboratory and then roll out across the institution and partnership

Lesson 9

• Identify and support champions who can become boundary spanning role models

Lesson 10

• Develop people who fill boundary spanning roles at all levels, working with local and national partners

Continue the Work of Building the Bridge between HEIs and Regions

Teaching Research

Academic

Societal

Education relevant to workLLL, Sector Skills, prof quals, employability, workforce education

(Relevance)

Translation of knowledge

into innovation

(Applications)

Academic education

World class academic Research base

Higher EducationDrivers

DR M.Wedgwood, Manchester Metropolitan University

Teaching Research

Academic

Societal

Widening Participation/access

Sector Skills

Graduate Employability

Employer Engagement and HE Targets

Professional Quals

Life Long Learning

Workforce Development

Foundation degrees

Economic Growth

Business Competitiveness

Knowledge Transfer

IP exploitation/spinout companies

Regional Development and regeneration

Graduates

Post Graduates

Higher Education Targets

Learning programmes

Intellectual Capital

Academic Research

International research base

Discipline advancement

New knowledge

World Class Knowledge Base

Some agendas/expectations of HE

DR M.Wedgwood, Manchester Metropolitan University,

Teaching Research

Academic

Societal/employerA UK Research Intensive

University?

DR M.Wedgwood, Manchester Metropolitan University

Teaching Research

Academic

SocietalPost 1992 University?

DR M.Wedgwood, Manchester Metropolitan University,

Teaching Research

Academic

SocietalA Mixed Economy University?

DR M.Wedgwood, Manchester Metropolitan University,