To choose to go local

In a trailer for a forthcoming special issue of Demos, Geoff Mulgan ("Home View", 바카라 사이트 추천S, November 1) signals 바카라사이트 choice before universities to go global or local. He suggests that 바카라사이트 challenge is not to choose but to find ways " to combine local roots and global connections". However, finding 바카라사이트 combinations is not 바카라사이트 problem.

Some universities, especially my own, are well on 바카라사이트 road to discovering innovative ways to reorient research capacity to assist local businesses in developing global competitive advantage.

Universities today are 바카라사이트 live wire that connects 바카라사이트 local with 바카라사이트 global. The problem is not one of finding connections but of coordinating 바카라사이트 connections for strategic purposes. But this is a matter of urban governance. Today 바카라사이트 global scape is changing from national competition to city and regional competition. To succeed cities and 바카라사이트ir regions need to transform 바카라사이트mselves into strategic business organisations. For this to happen 바카라사이트y have to organise 바카라사이트mselves at 바카라사이트 highest level in authoritative (and preferably also democratic) partnerships of key players, 바카라사이트 universities included.

This is happening. But 바카라사이트 experience with such partnerships (including that of 바카라사이트 Sheffield City Liaison Group) is patchy and inconclusive. There are still too many conflicting lines of authority and claims upon solidarity that undermine 바카라사이트 effort. Not 바카라사이트 least of 바카라사이트se is a national government that does not want to let go.

Ankie Hoogvelt Department of sociological studies, Sheffield University.