Karin Horsman is director of Strategy and Academic Affairs at Leiden University.
Sharing knowledge between science, regional government and business: acting together to further strengthen the knowledge economy. Karin Horsman, Director of Strategy and Academic Affairs at Leiden University, believes it is important to join forces on social issues that affect all participating parties. She likes to push for a common agenda with a view to the future of many regional colleagues.
“As a university, we see it as our mission to make a meaningful contribution to the economic development of the region by making our knowledge and networks available. Conversely, public and private partners can help us with our ambitions for university education, research and valorization. This is a valuable cross-fertilization that can benefit our region.”
“Major themes for Key Region Leiden lie, as far as I am concerned, in the areas of sustainability, mobility and labor market. Within these socially highly relevant topics, in my view, strong interfaces can be found and forces can be combined between public-private partners and knowledge institutions.”
This is a valuable cross-pollination that can benefit our region.
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“For me, the strength and added value of this partnership is that we can jointly create an agenda for regional cooperation supported by regional entrepreneurs and regional politicians, for which we as a university are happy to make our knowledge and networks available.”
