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Chapter 6 
Conclusions and visions


This chapter sums up the results in each chapter and provides more visions for the region:

 

  • The HEIs have a major impact on the region with more than 150,000 enrolled students in a large variety of courses and programmes.
  • The HEIs in the Øresund Region perform research at the highest international standards.
  • The Øresund Region is the 5th largest research centre in Europe, and the HEIs and companies of the region interact locally with high intensity.
  • The HEIs in the Øresund Region contribute to innovation and high-tech entrepeneurship through technology transfer, commercialization of knowledge and collaboration with industry.
  • The HEIs impact industry through research results and education and training of researchers.
  • The HEIs supply highly skilled graduates to the labor force and continues to up-date the competencies of the labor force.
  • The HEIs impact the labor market as large organizations with many employees.
  • The HEIs are acting to increase social mobility in the Øresund Region.
  • The society perceives the HEIs as crucial to the development of both physical and economic structures
  • The HEIs in the Øresund Region do more than technology transfer – they play a major role in the development of the cultural and social life in the region.
  • The HEIs act as places where worlds meet and “ports of knowledge”.
  • The HEIs contribute to the upkeep and enhancement of the large amount of human capital in the Øresund Region.
  • The HEIs have made a crucial contribution to the creation of the Øresund Region. The HEIs have influences greatly on the physical planning in the region.

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Redigeret 30-08-06 af Ulla Kockum