Universities and Regional Economic Development

Engaging with the Periphery
Herausgeber: Benneworth, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how universities in less successful regions contribute to processes of regional economic development and innovative growth. Universities are complex organisations, and can have difficulties in producing co-ordinated action around their knowledge production and circulation activities. Given an emerging emphasis

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780367665791
• ISBN-10: 0367665794
• Artikelnr.: 59999198

Autorenporträt

Paul Benneworth is a senior researcher at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente, the Netherlands, and Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Universities and regional development in peripheral regions Paul
Benneworth & Lisa Nieth Chapter 2 Universities and neo-endogenous
peripheral development: towards a systematic classification Paul Benneworth
& Lisa Nieth Chapter 3 Towards a strategic alignment: Regional challenges
and university tensions in peripheral geographies Rómulo Pinheiro Chapter 4
University roles in a peripheral Southern European region: Between
traditional and 'engaged' roles through the provision of knowledge
intensive business services Hugo Pinto, Elvira Uyarra, Manuel
Fernandez-Esquinas Chapter 5 'Strange bird': A peripheral university
college in a complex, peripheral region James Karlsen Chapter 6
Universities and Regional Economic Development: Engaging with the Periphery
Nina Kyllingstad Chapter 7 Vysocina region: from a remote rural region
straight into the virtual world Libor Prudký, Michaela mídová Chapter 8
Ústí region: learning hard about industry modernisation Inna ¿ábelková &
Jan Kohoutek Chapter 9 Higher education institutions at the periphery of
the periphery: creating sustainable economic development in Estonia Anne
Keerberg Chapter 10 Universities and regional economic development in
cross-border regions Jos van den Broek, Franziska Eckardt & Paul Benneworth
Chapter 11 Constructing Regional Resilience in a Knowledge Economy Crisis -
the case of the Nokia-led ICT Industry in Tampere Heli Kurikka, Jari
Kolehmainen & Markku Sotarauta Chapter 12 Conceptualising the
university-region economic development interface in peripheral regions
Paul Benneworth and Lisa Nieth Chapter 13 Future perspectives on
universities and peripheral regional development Lisa Nieth and Paul
Benneworth