Here we see the outline of a strategic plan which could guide and enable the rollout of strategic priorities and action points very quickly - iterating forward. Even if governments are slow off the mark, there is much that we can do together. Will we? - question for readers, not expecting you to answer Kyle!
The fact that some socioeconomic impacts might be difficult to tie back directly to universities doesn't mean that they don't exists.
Universities create more generalists thinkers and adaptable students than either polytechs or trade schools. It might be difficult to quantify the economic contributions of some of the professionals that come out of the universities (managers, public servants, lawyers, nurses, social workers, etc.) but it is a bit naive to say that they haven't prioritizing impact.
The model might need to be improved, but I don't think it's truly broken either.
No doubt impact is difficult to measure - most of it is secondary spillover effects. It's also not fair, as I noted, to blame universities for it. They create knowledge assets, including HQP; they don't mobilize them.
What is becoming clear, though, is that neither is anyone else in the pipeline, and so most of those knowledge assets just leave. That is what needs to change, and it involves all the stakeholders to innovation, not just universities.
Here we see the outline of a strategic plan which could guide and enable the rollout of strategic priorities and action points very quickly - iterating forward. Even if governments are slow off the mark, there is much that we can do together. Will we? - question for readers, not expecting you to answer Kyle!
The fact that some socioeconomic impacts might be difficult to tie back directly to universities doesn't mean that they don't exists.
Universities create more generalists thinkers and adaptable students than either polytechs or trade schools. It might be difficult to quantify the economic contributions of some of the professionals that come out of the universities (managers, public servants, lawyers, nurses, social workers, etc.) but it is a bit naive to say that they haven't prioritizing impact.
The model might need to be improved, but I don't think it's truly broken either.
No doubt impact is difficult to measure - most of it is secondary spillover effects. It's also not fair, as I noted, to blame universities for it. They create knowledge assets, including HQP; they don't mobilize them.
What is becoming clear, though, is that neither is anyone else in the pipeline, and so most of those knowledge assets just leave. That is what needs to change, and it involves all the stakeholders to innovation, not just universities.
That I can whole heartedly agree with.