Description: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 on global status within higher education, there is also a risk that academics might be encouraged to de-prioritise regional engagement activities.This volume will be the first book to explicitly foreground this tension, taking a comprehensive comparative overview of universities in European economically peripheral regions, and making suggestions for developing better - and more place-specific - policies for improving these university-regional collaborations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Universities and Regional Economic Development: Engaging with the Periphery (Regions and Cities). To get started finding Universities and Regional Economic Development: Engaging with the Periphery (Regions and Cities), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Universities and Regional Economic Development: Engaging with the Periphery (Regions and Cities)
Description: 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 on global status within higher education, there is also a risk that academics might be encouraged to de-prioritise regional engagement activities.This volume will be the first book to explicitly foreground this tension, taking a comprehensive comparative overview of universities in European economically peripheral regions, and making suggestions for developing better - and more place-specific - policies for improving these university-regional collaborations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Universities and Regional Economic Development: Engaging with the Periphery (Regions and Cities). To get started finding Universities and Regional Economic Development: Engaging with the Periphery (Regions and Cities), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.