The document summarizes a discussion around leadership and cooperation in academia. It notes the difficulties universities face in asserting their social role while resisting threats to autonomy from governments and treating students as customers. Speakers discussed the need for universities to provide space for creative problem solving of socio-economic challenges, and for academics to renew their intrinsic motivation to generate new ideas. It was noted that the relationship between universities and society depends on many context-specific dimensions, and that action research can help open the "black box" of learning between academics and regional actors. A key conclusion was that achieving balance between theoretical and applied components in research takes time and commitment from institutions.

1. LEADERSHIP &
COOPERATION
IN ACADEMIA
Martes de Innobasque:
‘Utilizando el conocimiento para innovar’
Deusto Business School, Bilbao, 9th July 2013
James Wilson
(Orkestra & Deusto Business School)
jamierwilson

2. The global university is mainly adapting to private interests
rather than supporting public projects and the common good
Gerd Biesta (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
The main problem confronting academia is the difficulty of asserting
universities’ valuable social role while resisting threats to autonomy
from “the state as a social engineer” and “the student as a customer”
Gordon Graham (Princeton Theological Semenary, US)
The Social Role of the University
“Where were you?” Now more than ever there is a need for
engagement and involvement of the economics profession in
the problems of our day
David Blanchflower (Dartmouth College, US)

3. A key task facing universities is to provide people with the
creative space to meet socio-economic development challenges
Roger Sugden (University of British Columbia, Canada)
We need to recognise the value of sensibility, a sensibility that
requires play, which “wastes time”
Thomas Docherty (University of Warwick, UK)
An important ‘space’
The intrinsic motivation of academics needs renewal and
nurturing to generate enquiry-led research and new ideas
Silvia Sacchetti (University of Stirling, UK)

4. The meeting of university and society is very context specific and
depends on many different dimensions: institutional,
communicative, power, identity, cultural …
Roger Normann & Hans Chr Garmann Johnsen (University of Agder, Norway)
Action research can contribute to opening up the black box of
interactive learning processes between academic research and
regional actors
Mari José Aranguren, James Karlsen, Miren Larrea & James Wilson
(Orkestra & Deusto Business School, Spain)
Connecting the ‘space’ …
A crisis of leadership in higher education: the leader cannot
simply be the agent of another more powerful force; leadership
should enhance and extend freedom
Thomas Docherty (University of Warwick, UK)

5. The Case of Orkestra
3 CASES
CONCLUSIONS
Cluster Mapping
Cluster
Evaluation
Territorial
Competitiveness
Diagnostics
• Difficult balance between theoretical and action components
• Patience & commitment: It takes time to co-generate knowledge
• Institutional legitimacy is important
• Behaviour of researchers and types of research outputs need to evolve

6. GRACIAS
ESKERRIK ASKO
THANK YOU
Martes de Innobasque:
‘Utilizando el conocimiento para innovar’
Deusto Business School, Bilbao, 9 de julio 2013
James Wilson
(Orkestra & Deusto Business School)
jamierwilson