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Profile
Fumi Kitagawa works in research as part of the ESRC funded programme LLAKES , based at Graduate School of Education at University of Bristol. Until recently, she has worked as assistant professor in innovation studies at Lund University in Sweden. Previously she was Research Fellow at Department of Higher Education, National Institute for Educational Policy Research (NIER) in Japan, conducting a wide range of research on higher education policy issues. Between 2006 and 2007, Fumi was involved in the OECD project "Supporting the Contribution of HEIs to Regional Development" in South Korea and Canada. In 2005, she held Jean Monnet Fellowship at European University Institute to work on “The role of universities in innovation systems”. She received her doctorate degree from the University of Birmingham in 2004, and her thesis examined the role of universities in regional development in nine English regions.
Selected Publications
Kitagawa, F (2009) ‘Universities-Industry Links and Regional Development in Japan: Connecting Excellence and Relevance?’ Science, Society and Technology, Special Issue,. Vol. 14, No. 1, 1-33
Kitagawa, F (2008) ‘(Post-) Mass Higher Education and Japanese Elite Universities’ in Palfreyman, D. and Tapper, T. (eds.) Structuring Mass Higher Education: The Role of Elite Institutions. New York: Routledge. pp. 257-280.
Kitagawa, F (2007) ‘Regionalisation of Science and Innovation Governance in Japan?’, in Regional Studies, Special Edition “Regional Governance and Science Policy”. Vol.41, No.8, pp.1099-1114.
Kitagawa, F. (2005) “The Fukuoka Silicon Sea-Belt Project – An East Asian Experiment in Developing Trans-National Networks” Research Briefing, European Planning Studies,. Vol.13. No.5. pp. 793-799.
Kitagawa, F (2005) ‘Entrepreneurial Universities and the Development of Regional Societies: A Spatial View of the Europe of Knowledge’ Higher Education Management and Policy: Vol.17 No. 3 Special Issue on Entrepreneurship pp.65-90 Paris: OECD.
Kitagawa, F (2005) ‘Universities and Regional Advantage: Higher Education and Innovation Policies in English regions’ European Planning Studies. Vol.12, No.,6. pp.835-852
