Involving Universities in Regional Upgrading in the Periphery: Lessons from Northern Europe

Paul Benneworth () and Rómulo Pinheiro ()
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Paul Benneworth: University of Twente
Rómulo Pinheiro: Agderforskning

Chapter Chapter 13 in Regional Upgrading in Southern Europe, 2017, pp 299-321 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents and discusses two cases of regional upgrading involving public-run universities in two Northern European countries, Norway and the Netherlands. More specifically, it illuminates how academic groups associated with the field of medicine took pro-active steps to establish and further develop regional coalitions which, over time, have resulted in situated learning. The focus on processes of university-regional engagement and mutual satisfaction in a context where universities are pressured to be globally excellent allow lessons to be drawn for regions in Southern Europe. Subtle transfer is nevertheless required to account for universities’ autonomies and organisational capacity to embed engagement at the institutional level.

Keywords: Higher education; Regional development; Universities; Northern Europe; Local relevance and global excellence; Tensions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 I25 I28 L38 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49818-8_13

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