Universities and regional economic development in cross-border regions: Engaging with the periphery

TY - CHAP

T1 - Universities and regional economic development in cross-border regions

T2 - Engaging with the periphery

AU - Broek, Jos Van Den

AU - Eckardt, Franziska

AU - Benneworth, Paul

PY - 2018/7/1

Y1 - 2018/7/1

N2 - In this chapter, we explore how higher education can contribute to building cross-border regional innovation systems (CBRISs) through an analysis of three examples of universities attempting to work across the Dutch-German border. Our findings show that higher education institutes can contribute to building (CB)RISs by exercising regional leadership, the construction of mutual benefits, and continually taking small steps of progress towards the creation of a (CB)RIS. Higher education institutes thereby need to mediate between two sets of national tensions and we suggest that the creation of fuzzy governance spaces may facilitate the contribution of universities to innovation in cross-border regions

AB - In this chapter, we explore how higher education can contribute to building cross-border regional innovation systems (CBRISs) through an analysis of three examples of universities attempting to work across the Dutch-German border. Our findings show that higher education institutes can contribute to building (CB)RISs by exercising regional leadership, the construction of mutual benefits, and continually taking small steps of progress towards the creation of a (CB)RIS. Higher education institutes thereby need to mediate between two sets of national tensions and we suggest that the creation of fuzzy governance spaces may facilitate the contribution of universities to innovation in cross-border regions

U2 - 10.4324/9781315168357-10

DO - 10.4324/9781315168357-10

M3 - Chapter

SP - 145

EP - 162

BT - Universities and Regional Economic Development

PB - Routledge

ER -