Spanning Boundaries
The capacity to boundary span is increasingly deemed crucial among the university staff in the entrepreneurial discovery and smart specialisation processes of the Higher Education Institutions, to support transfer and exchange of knowledge.
This project aims to empower and enable university and business professionals to make a stronger contribution to regional economic and social development by providing knowledge, support and a closer engagement with each other and their environment.
The nature of the barriers that hinder regional engagement include “lack of ‘boundary spanning skills in the university” and “lack of leadership to drive change”.
This project developed a sophisticated training tool for universities and tracked its progress over a two-year period.