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Dr Sue Brownlow Director

Dr Sue Brownlow Director. Can Universities Benefit Rural Communities? Harnessing the opportunity for Universities to drive smart specialisation in regional development. A Quick Reminder. Kernow (Cornwall). A land shaped by the powerful seas of the Atlantic.

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Dr Sue Brownlow Director

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  1. Dr Sue Brownlow Director Can Universities Benefit Rural Communities? Harnessing the opportunity for Universities to drive smart specialisation in regional development

  2. A Quick Reminder Kernow (Cornwall)

  3. A land shaped by the powerful seas of the Atlantic

  4. Communities shaped by land and sea

  5. Culture rooted in an ancient past

  6. Communities that celebrate new cultural opportunities

  7. A business base with the confidence to seek global commercial markets

  8. Statistically Speaking It would be easy to simply give this picture of a beautiful region, confident and full of opportunities But this would not be a complete picture, and statistics point to pressing needs and an economy still lagging and lacking all the skills needed to help it grow and catch up with the rest of the UK and Europe

  9. Our Economic prosperitymeasured by GDP per Capita Our economic prosperity, measured per person, shows that we still significantly lag the European average UK average of £28,700 per capita SW UK average of £26,100 per capita EU average of £25,100 per capita Cornwall average of £18,700 per capita 35% below the UK average 25% below the EU average

  10. Our Skills base While our skill levels are up with National figures for levels one, two and three, it is advanced skills where Cornwall shows the greatest deficit Percentage of working age population in 2008 with level 4+ skills (graduate level) UK overall has 29.9% Level 4+ skills S. West UK has 29.2 % Level 4+ skills Cornwall averages 24.2% Level 4+ skills Cornwall lags the rest of the UK by nearly 20% That’s more than 15,000 graduates missing from the workforce

  11. Our Performance in Knowledge Intensive Sectors (KIS) • The Proportion of all employment in private sector KIS is 17.9%, the second lowest of all the Local Enterprise Partnership regions in the UK in June 2010 • At an annual growth rate of 45.5%, Cornwall has the fastest rate of growth (half as much again as the next fastest) in KIS of all the Local Enterprise Partnership regions in June 2010

  12. Our view in CUC is that they can Can Universities Benefit Rural Communities?

  13. The previous two UNICREDS conferences have started to define how geography, community and politics contribute to shaping the Higher Education driven economic opportunities in any region

  14. The UNICREDS model develops triple helix thinking

  15. A framework for CUC’s achievements Triple Helix UNIVERSITIES A do-able task for HE delivery partners UNIVERSITIES Fits with National and International growth areas GOVERNMENT Relevant to the local economy INDUSTRY GOVERNMENT INDUSTRY SMART specialisation

  16. CUC’s JOURNEY Objective One Building capacity £100 million + Investment into general University Infrastructure Taking the risk Convergence Smart Specialisation £100 million + investment into specialised facilities for helping the growth of knowledge intensive business in Cornwall Embedding the benefits

  17. GOVERNMENT “we observe a definite tendency in Europe for countries and regions to do the same thing and envisage their future in a similar fashion……leaving Europe with a collection of sub-critical systems, all doing more or less the same thing” WARNING “Government’s challenge should not be to direct us in what to do but to encourage us to discover what to do. The search for SMART specialisation needs to come through entrepreneurs, firms and universities”. Dominique Foray, EURADA, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

  18. INDUSTRY/ PRIVATE SECTOR The private sector in leading regions may have the critical mass to set aims to be inventive at the technological frontiers in General Purpose Technologies (for example, such as biotechnology, information technology, nanotechnology etc). More likely, in remote, peripheral, economically challenged regions such as those in partnership in UNICREDS, our private sector will aim to invest in the invention or development of applications of a General Purpose Technology in the important domains of our regional economies.

  19. UNIVERSITIES Initially there needs to be a certain degree of faith, based on evidence of the past, that Universities and Higher Education can provide a flexible basis for providing original research and new knowledge that can fuel new economic growth When such an understanding has been reached and Higher Education has been embedded in a region as an economic growth driver, there needs to be a mutual process of recognition (i.e. by the supply as well as the demand) of the ability of HEI’s to perform in the specialised domains emerging as priorities for the regional economy.

  20. A framework for CUC’s achievements SMART specialisation UNIVERSITIES A do-able task for HE delivery partners Fits with National and International growth areas Relevant to the local economy GOVERNMENT INDUSTRY

  21. The following CUC examples illustrate how Cornwall has harnessed the opportunity for Universities to drive SMART specialisation in its regional development utilising • High Speed Internet information technology • Renewable Energy technology • Processes to help the private (and voluntary) sector • capitalise on graduate skills

  22. High speed internet and Digital Media One focus of University College Falmouth is Digital Media A small cluster of digital media companies is already growing and are supported in Cornwall with high speed internet (Information Technology) as a structural facilitator of further growth Europe 2020 highlights “a digital agenda for Europe to speed up the roll out of high speed internet” as one of its flagship targets and the new Cornwall Local Enterprise Partnership which has evolved from The UK Government’s National Reform Programme , has the development of high speed internet (Next Generation Broadband) as one of its top priorities

  23. Digital Media Skills at Shelterbox - video

  24. Resource Efficient Europe and Wave Energy One focus of The University of Exeter’s new Environment and Sustainability Institute is marine renewable energy A device (wave hub) has already been deployed offshore from Cornwall to focus and facilitate business growth and supporting research & development in the marine renewable sector Europe 2020 highlights “support for the shift towards a low carbon economy, increase the use of renewable energy sources…” as one of its flagship targets while Nationally, The South West Region of the UK has been designated as a Low Carbon Economic Area for marine energy, as part of the UK's Low Carbon Industrial Strategy.

  25. Agenda for New Skills and Jobs and Unlocking Cornish Potential CUC Institutions work together through the “Unlocking Cornish Potential” scheme to match, place and support skilled graduates in jobs in Cornwall As part of the scheme, mentors are employed from leading local enterprises to ensure that knowledge is effectively transferred into the local economy Europe 2020 highlights the need to “modernise labour markets and empower people by development of their skills …” and the UK Commission for employment and skills “Ambition for 2020” report states “our prosperity depends on the success of our economy. That depends on the jobs we are able to create: and having the skilled workforce we need to do them – and do them well”

  26. New Skills & Unlocking Cornish Potential at “Fifteen” - video

  27. CONCLUSIONS • Can Universities benefit Regional economies? • Yes they can and having faith in this is the first step: • UNICREDS partners now have evidence to back this up, which wasn’t available when we started out • What strategic approaches help us to achieve such benefits? • In terms of research and innovation, using SMART specialisation is a way forward: • Find the specialisms where the local economy can respond to national and EU high growth opportunities, and where HE growth is feasible and sustainable • What are the caveats? • To achieve benefits requires: • mutual understanding of Business and Higher Education sectors • flexibility to deliver to local as well as national and EU priorities

  28. Thank You Meur ras

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