The Street-Wise University: The Amsterdam Knowledge Mile as an Intermediary and Place-Making Concept

The Street-Wise University: The Amsterdam Knowledge Mile as an Intermediary and Place-Making Concept

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Universities have become more engaged or entrepreneurial, forging deeper relations with society beyond the economic sphere.To foster, structure, and institutionalize a broader spectrum of engagement, new types of intermediary organizations are created, going beyond the “standard” technology transfer offices, incubators, and science berkley power worm 100 pack parks.This paper conceptualizes the role of such new-style intermediaries as facilitator, enabler, and co-shaper of university−society interaction, making a distinction between the roles of facilitation, configuration, and brokering.As a case study, the paper presents the Knowledge Mile in Amsterdam as a novel form of hyper-local engagement of a university with its urban surroundings that connects the challenges of companies and organisations radio birdman tshirt in the street to a broad range of educational and research activities of the university, as well as to rebrand the street.