ABSTRACT
Education and availability of highly qualified specialists is crucial to economic development. Policies are therefore often aimed at building strong links between universities, to stimulate innovation in science and business. Most Western countries show a widening income gap between those who received a good education and the rest, according to the OECD (2005). It has even been calculated that 1 per cent growth in a population’s level of education raises economic output by 3 to 6 per cent (Schleicher 2006).
