Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The study of universities' role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualision 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 eleven empirical chapters, the authors not only chart the diversity amongst case institutions, engagement mechanisms and regional contexts, but also use that diversity to advance a novel conceptual framework 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 organisation 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: Brazil, Caribbean, China, Italy, Norway, and Poland. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policy makers working in economic geography, regional development, innovation and higher education management"-- Provided by publisher.

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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. Rómulo 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.

<OL><LI><P>Universities' Mundaneness and Regional Engagement: Setting the stage <I>Elisa Thomas; Rómulo Pinheiro; Tatiana Iakovleva; Laila Nordstrand Berg; Paul Benneworth</I> 2. Unpacking mundaneness: A novel conceptual framework for universities and regional engagement <I>Rómulo Pinheiro; Tatiana Iakovleva; Laila Nordstrand Berg; Elisa Thomas; Paul Benneworth </I>3. Changes and continuities in the development of rural teacher education in the fjords of Western Norway <I>Laila Nordstrand Berg; Gunnar Yttri</I> 4. University Dynamic Capabilities to Boost Innovation Ecosystems: the case of a University Alliance in Brazil<I> Kadígia Faccin; Elisa Thomas; Caroline Kretschmer</I> 5. Exploring the role of the university in the creation of knowledge networks in the Aso Valley, a rural area in Marche Region (Italy) <I>Sabrina Tomasi; Concetta Ferrara; Gigliola Paviotti; Chiara Aleffi; Alessio Cavicchi; Bertella Giovanna </I>6. The third mission -- enhancing academic engagement with industry <I>Tatiana Iakovleva; Mette Adkins</I> 7. Student Entrepreneurship Programs in Higher Education Institutions: Multi-scalar Embeddedness and heterogenous regional responses <I>Øyvind Midtbø Berge; Øystein Stavø Høvig; Svein Gunnar Sjøtun 8. </I>Student Incubators in China: The Cases in Shanghai and Wuhan <I>Dian Liu </I>9. Aligning University Roles and Strategic Orientations: When Local Mandates and Global Aspirations Meet <I>Iyad Abualrub; Rómulo Pinheiro </I>10. Emergent strategies and tensions between decoupled university structures and strategic management initiatives: A case study of a strategy process <I>James Karlsen; Rómulo Pinheiro </I>11. Towards the strategic cooperation of 'two worlds': University-local government relationships in Warsaw <I>Anna Dąbrowska; Wojciech Dziemianowicz; Magdalena Cybulska</I> 12. Keeping Talents in the Region? Educational Internships and Their Impact on Regional Development <I>Laila Nordstrand Berg; Kristin Lofthus Hope</I> 13. Activist Leadership in the Caribbean: The case of The University of the West Indies <I>Elin Oftedal; Emily Dick-Forde; Luz Longsworth</I> 14. Universities and Regions: New insights and emerging developments <I>Laila Nordstrand Berg; Elisa Thomas; Tatiana Iakovleva; Rómulo Pinheiro; Paul Benneworth</P></I></LI></OL>

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