Higher Education in Regional and City Development
Subtitle: Bío Bío Region, Chile 2010
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and The World Bank
Contributors: World Bank
Series: Higher education in regional and city development; Higher Education in Regional and City Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9789264088931
Subjects: Education; Rural and Regional Development Urban
Description: The Bío Bío Region has pioneered regional development in Chile. It has a high concentration of higher education and research activity. Its universities and other higher education institutions have made significant progress in widening access to education. But challenges remain: the Bío Bío Region continues to suffer from brain drain as well as higher than average unemployment and poverty rates. How can the Bío Bío Region promote new business formation and the development of the existing small and medium-sized companies? What incentives are needed to improve higher education institutions’ regional and local orientation? How can higher education institutions move from knowledge generation towards knowledge transfer? This joint OECD and World Bank review explores a range of helpful policy measures and institutional reforms to mobilise higher education for the development of the Bío Bío Region. It is part of the series of the OECD reviews of Higher Education in Regional and City Development. These reviews help mobilise higher education institutions for economic, social and cultural development of cities and regions. They analyse how the higher education system impacts upon regional and local development and bring together universities, other higher education institutions and public and private agencies to identify strategic goals and to work towards them.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Acronyms and abbreviations; title: Assessment and recommendations; title: The Bío Bío Region and its higher education institutions; title: Contribution of higher education to human capital development; title: Contribution of research to regional innovation in the Bío Bío Region; title: Social, cultural and environmental development; title: Capacity building for regional co-operation; title: Annex 1; title: Annex 2; title: Annex 3; title: Annex 4.