Universities and Regional Economic Development: Engaging with the Periphery - Paperback

by Paul Benneworth (Editor)

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

Author Biography

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