Universities as anchor institutions for entrepreneurship and regional development

Eleanor Hamilton, Rhiannon Pugh and Danny Soetanto

Chapter 4 in Rethinking Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2025, pp 44-62 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This contribution presents an overview of different concepts and themes that pertain to the roles of universities in regional development. As a subfield that the authors have been heavily engaged with over the past couple of decades, they took the opportunity to take stock of the state of knowledge on this theme, considering both the evolution of academic debate to date and positing the themes, topics and concepts they see as important going forward. They discuss the evolution of concepts in this domain from the entrepreneurial towards engaged universities with social, sustainability and economic missions at their heart. They also discuss how contemporary ruptures to our socioeconomic foundations – namely, COVID-19 and the ever-heightening climate crisis – have led to rethinking the roles of universities and how they see discussions in this area shifting and evolving at the current time. In doing so, they place their own contributions and insights drawn from their empirical investigations against wider discussions in the global literature and the work of other scholars also involved in the task of rethinking the role of universities in regional development.

Keywords: Universities; Regional development; Entrepreneurial universities; Engaged universities; Sustainable development; Anchor institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802201437
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