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1. University-business interaction in the Oxford and Cambridge regions.

Author

Lawton Smith, Helen, Keeble, David, Lawson, Clive, Moore, Barry, and Wilkinson, Frank

Subjects
*UNIVERSITIES & colleges, *BUSINESS enterprises, *PROXIMITY spaces
Abstract

This paper explores the interplay of factors that produce specific local patterns of interaction between firms and universities, using survey evidence from a comparative study of two e´lite locations, the Oxford and Cambridge regions. It uses these examples to examine why innovating firms have external links, why they have them with universities, which spatial mechanisms are significant in the place-specific technology transfer links universities have with firms in their immediate hinterlands, and what kinds of institutional factors influence the form links take. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2001
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2. Thatcher seeks to endow `free enterprise' chair.

Author

Walker, David

Subjects
*FREE enterprise, *ENDOWMENTS, *UNIVERSITY & college alumni, *HIGHER education, *POLITICAL attitudes
Abstract

Reports on efforts by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to endow a professorship at the University of Cambridge focused on free enterprise. Negotiations and considerations by the university of its academic integrity; The University of Oxford's rejection of a proposal to give Thatcher, an alumnus, an honorary doctorate; Thatcher's donation of her personal and political papers to Cambridge's Churchill College.

Published
1997