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University as regional development agent : a counterfactual analysis of an African university / created by Samuel N Fongwa

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Africa Education Development ; Volume 12 , number 4 ,Pretoria UNISA Press and Routledge 2015Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISSN:
  • 18146627
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: The contribution of universities to regional development has in the last few decades gained significant currency. Inter alia, this contribution has been through steered national, regional, and institutional policies aimed at enhancing national development, good governance, human capital creation and innovation in an increasing knowledge-dependent economy, and through the universities‟ core technologies of teaching and research. Based on empirical findings from an African case study, this paper argues that other forms of contributions to regional development exist, which are neither from deliberate efforts nor steered by direct policies. This article proposes new forms of contributions termed „unintended contributions‟, in which universities become growth poles by virtue of being located in a particular region. Using the counterfactual and „export and import substitution‟ methods of analysis, this study shows the various ways in which a rural university in Cameroon has „contributed to regional development as a „growth pole‟
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Journal Article Journal Article Main Library - Special Collections L81.A33 AFR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol. 12, No 4, Pages 533-551 SP25377 Not for loan For in-house use only

The contribution of universities to regional development has in the last few decades
gained significant currency. Inter alia, this contribution has been through steered
national, regional, and institutional policies aimed at enhancing national development,
good governance, human capital creation and innovation in an increasing knowledge-dependent economy, and through the universities‟ core technologies of teaching and
research.
Based on empirical findings from an African case study, this paper argues that other
forms of contributions to regional development exist, which are neither from deliberate
efforts nor steered by direct policies. This article proposes new forms of contributions
termed „unintended contributions‟, in which universities become growth poles by virtue
of being located in a particular region. Using the counterfactual and „export and import
substitution‟ methods of analysis, this study shows the various ways in which a rural
university in Cameroon has „contributed to regional development as a „growth pole‟

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