scholarly journals Engineering 'manpower' Shortages, Regional Economic Development, And The 1960 California Master Plan For Higher Education: Historical Lessons On Engineering Workforce Development

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Akera
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Regional Economic

Scientific and Innovative Aspects of Regional Economic Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 146-156
Author(s):  
E. O. Butova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Regional Economic Growth ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Scientific Potential

Innovation-driven development of the Russian economy requires a consistent national policy aimed at boosting scientific and innovative activity in the regions, which would facilitate the development of entrepreneurship and technology. It also plays an important role in ensuring the socio-economic progress of the regions and efficiency of income distribution.Aim. The presented study aims to examine the potential directions for optimizing scientific and innovative activity in regional socio-economic development and to identify factors that facilitate the intensification of innovative activity in the regions.Tasks. The authors conduct a correlation analysis between scientific and economic development of the regions with allowance for such factors as the level of education of the population and the number of researchers engaged in research and development (R&D). They also assess the current state of scientific and innovative activity and the national policy on the formation of the scientific and innovative potential of the regions.Methods. The methodological basis of the study of the scientific and innovative aspects of regional economic development includes correlation-regression analysis and abstract logical methods.Results. This study substantiates the role of scientific and innovative activity in regional economic development; determines a positive correlation between regional economic growth and the number of researchers; establishes an inverse correlation between scientific and economic development based on the dependence of innovative activity in the regions on the accumulated scientific potential; empirically assesses the impact of innovative factors on regional economic growth and proposes directions for improving the efficiency of the regional system of science and innovation.Conclusions. Concentrations of knowledge are analyzed as agglomerations of expenses on research and development, science and technology. This leads to an increase in the number of scientists, engineers, scientific and technological personnel of innovative enterprises in various Russian regions. A correlation analysis between scientific and economic regional development shows that per-capita GRP growth rate by the number of researchers is statistically significant, which means there are several factors affecting this dependence: geographical accessibility of higher education, university expenses on infrastructure and services, job creation, additional revenue from students from other countries and regions. It is established that efficient regional higher education systems and innovative development have a positive effect on regional economic development. The conducted analysis shows that a policy on the innovative development of resource regions should be based on government support that would facilitate the creation of innovations and strengthening of scientific potential.

A New Era of Federal Involvement in Regional Economic Development? The Case of the Wired Initiative

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Renski
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
New Era ◽  
High Employment

In November 2005 the US Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration announced a bold new initiative—Workforce Innovations in Regional Economic Development (known as WIRED). In its first iteration the WIRED initiative awarded thirteen three-year regional planning and development grants to assist regions in integrating their workforce and economic development systems to better serve emerging technologies and high employment growth sectors. In this paper I discuss the WIRED initiative as a model for federal involvement in regional economic development. Despite a sound basis in regional development theory, the implementation of WIRED fell short of its original goals that, in many cases, stymied regional attempts at innovation. The difficulties experienced by first-generation WIRED recipients led to a stark revision of the federal WIRED concept and a reversion to more traditional workforce development approaches. To be truly effective, future federal endeavors in regional economic development must overcome the persistent institutional divisions, legal impediments, and political pressures that work contrary to the desired goal of a flexible and competitive regional development strategy.

scholarly journals Analysis on the Degree of Coupling Coordination Between Higher Education and Regional Economic Development in China: Take Sichuan Province of China as an Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong Ye
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Sichuan Province ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Chengdu Plain ◽  
Economic Zone ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Coordination Degree

To explore the relationship between China's higher education and the level of regional economic development, the coupling coordination degree of panel data from China's Sichuan province across 2011-2018 is analyzed based on self-constructed evaluation index system and with a integration of various methods including entropy value method, coupling coordination degree model and grey forecasting model. The results show that the coupling coordination degree between higher education and economic development in five Sichuan districts is not high, among which Chengdu Plain Economic Zone is much higher than the other four: southern Sichuan Economic Zone, northeast Sichuan Economic Zone, Panxi Economic Zone and northwest Sichuan Ecological Demonstration Zone. The study also predicts that in the five years, the coupling coordination degree of the five districts in Sichuan will be still not high, and none of them will broke through the incoordinate stage and entered the coordination stage. Moreover, the difference between the prefecture-level cities in Chengdu Plain Economic Zone is the largest.

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