Contextualizing the role of universities to regional development
Introduction to the Special Issue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7366513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Benneworth (0000-0003-0539-235X, corresponding author), Rune Dahl Fitjar (0000-0001-5333-2701) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 331-338 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Regional Studies Regional Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2168-1376 • E-ISSN: 2168-1376 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21681376.2019.1601593 |
| OpenAlex | W2944134394 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 23 |
Universities are increasingly expected to provide contributions to regional innovation and economic development processes. Despite much work on how universities can contribute to regional growth processes, there is much less consideration about why universities might choose to engage in regional development. Even though they may receive public funding, universities have no specific duty to engage, and together with recent pressures to internationalize, university regional engagement activities face tensions from these delocalization pressures. This special issue explores four ways in which universities negotiate these tensions in ensuring that their globally focused knowledge creation activities supports local innovation. First, universities can contribute to labour market upskilling, but where there are substantive problems associated with the absorption of those graduates on both the supply and demand sides, there be mismatch and even graduate underemployment. Second, world-class academics may contribute to host regions’ innovation networks, but this depends on local industries’ research and development geography, on individual academics’ motivations as well as highly skilled researchers’ willingness to stay in one region. Third, universities can steer and support academics towards regional engagement, but they risk engagement activities being exclusively oriented towards what high-level strategic actors believe to be important. Finally, universities can raise the quality of regional innovation strategy processes and create collective innovation assets, but are reliant upon grass-roots-change agents that might not necessarily be visible to strategic managers. A better understanding of these four tensions is necessary to deliver practical improvements to university contributions to smart, social and sustainable regional development
Economic geography · Engineering ethics · Geography · Political science · Regional development · Regional science · Sociology · Engineering · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Higher Education Governance and Development · Regional Development and Policy
Universities’ roles in regional development and evaluating their quality
Startups in entrepreneurial ecosystems – a case study of the metropolitan area of Porto
Networks for Science-Informed Innovation in the Arctic
A hazai terület- és településfejlesztés egyik „állatorvosi lova”
Measuring the third mission of European Universities
Invisible innovation
Anchoring talent to regions
Structural and agentic powers in university-based regional innovation across Chinese core and non-core cities
Exploring the misalignment between HEIs’ educational offerings and the local economy in low(er) income regions
Opening doors
Regions in a time of pandemic
Exploring university effect in Turkish regional development—A multifaceted statistical approach
The social impact of universities
The role of anchor institutions in creating value for SMEs
Conceptualizing the system-based university
From ‘Ivory Tower Traditionalists’ to ‘Entrepreneurial Scientists’
Scientific Mobility and Knowledge Transfer at the Interregional and Intraregional Level
Universities and associative regional governance
Strategic agency and institutional change
Public Sector Reform in Dutch Higher Education
Oasis in the desert? Bridging academics’ collaboration activities as a conduit for global knowledge flows to peripheral regions
Science in the city region
Why do academics engage locally? Insights from the University of Stavanger
The impact of the establishment of a university in a peripheral region on the local labour market for graduates
Institutionalization of cross-border regional innovation systems
Turning the tables
Third mission and regional context
What influences universities’ regional engagement? A multi-stakeholder perspective applying a Q-methodological approach
The Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) in Scotland’s innovation system
Understanding the strategic ‘black hole’ in regional innovation coalitions
Human capital and university–business interactions
Designing regional development? Exploring the University of Aveiro's role in the innovation policy process
Delving into social entrepreneurship in universities
Delivering smart specialization in peripheral regions
Exploring the spatial reach of co-publication partnerships of multinational enterprises
Doctoral education and employment in the regions
Old wine in new bottles’? Smart Specialisation in Wales
Proximity factors influencing academics’ decisions to cooperate with industrial organizations
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |