Economic growth is the priority of every European government, and it can't come soon enough.  How can universities help?

Europe's research universities are already making a huge economic contribution: that much is obvious.  We educate the future workforce, we perform research which governments, business and industry commission through research contracts, and we make discoveries and inventions which, formalised in recent years as 'technology transfer', are put directly to work by the private sector to generate economic return.