Universities and Regional Engagement: From the Exceptional to the Everyday (Regions and Cities)
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Universities and Regional Engagement: From the Exceptional to the Everyday (Regions and Cities)

Universities and Regional Engagement: From the Exceptional to the Everyday (Regions and Cities)

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Tatiana Iakovleva (Contributor) Elisa Thomas (Contributor) Laila Nordstrand Berg (Contributor) Romulo Pinheiro (Contributor) Paul Benneworth (Contributor)  

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The study of universities' role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualization which embraces its underlying complexity and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities' "everyday" engagements, the book delves into the manifold ways in which university knowledge agents build connections with regional partners. Through 11 empirical chapters, the authors not only chart the diversity among case institutions, engagement mechanisms, and regional contexts but also use that diversity to advance a novel conceptual framework, centered on the process of mundaneness, for unpacking university-regions' everyday activities, taking into account the dynamic, complex, and co-evolving interplay between (a) key social agents and institutions, (b) the contexts in which they are embedded, as well as (c) the historical trajectories and strategic ambitions underpinning context-specific social arrangements and interactions that are mediated by temporal and spatial dimensions. Drawing on evolutionary economic geography, innovation studies, management and organization studies, and historical perspectives, the volume advances a new mode of understanding university-regional engagement as a form of extendable temporary coupling, which also helps to address perennial policy and managerial questions alike of what to do with universities that do not serve local labour market needs and/or are located in regions suffering from brain drain. The book illustrates such dynamics from diverse national contexts and three continents: Brazil, Caribbean, China, Italy, Norway, and Poland. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers, and policymakers working in economic geography, regional development, innovation, and higher education management. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 18 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Tatiana Iakovleva is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Business School, University of Stavanger, Norway.Elisa Thomas is Associate Professor at Nord University and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway.Laila Nordstrand Berg is Associate Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.Romulo Pinheiro is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Agder, Norway.Paul Benneworth was Professor of Innovation and Regional Development at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.
  • Contributor: Tatiana Iakovleva
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9780367713072
  • Number of Pages: 226
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 517
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2022-03-01
  • Series: Regions and Cities
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Tatiana Iakovleva is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Business School, University of Stavanger, Norway.Elisa Thomas is Associate Professor at Nord University and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway.Laila Nordstrand Berg is Associate Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.Romulo Pinheiro is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Agder, Norway.Paul Benneworth was Professor of Innovation and Regional Development at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.

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