Executive summary The past 50 years have seen a massive expansion in higher education, especially... more Executive summary The past 50 years have seen a massive expansion in higher education, especially in middle income countries. There has also been significant growth in student mobility, though this tends to favour higher income countries who enjoy positive net flows at the expense of lower income ones. University missions evolve over time and in response to external demands. Recent decades have seen a transformation in the role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in regional development. There are mutual benefits – for example universities get access to new funding streams and regional partners get access to knowledge, innovation and technology. But effective regional partnerships require trust and can often be a time-consuming process. Relationships need to go beyond superficial displays of cooperation through, for example, the signing of high level agreements such as memoranda of understanding. The primary value of higher education to a region is through enhancing human capita...
By looking at the official data, it is impossible not to notice that Brazil has undergone profoun... more By looking at the official data, it is impossible not to notice that Brazil has undergone profound social and economic transformation. In fact, Brazil's GDP grew approximately 157 times since the early twentieth century to the present day, being this economic performance responsible for placing the country as an important player in South America and in the world as well. This deep transformation also affected the Brazilian higher education system, which has experienced considerable changes over the last decades, most of them driven by two interrelated factors: (a) an intense process of globalization that offers new opportunities as well as imposes new demands for universities; and (b) the perception ? largely influenced by the vast literature on Regional Innovation Systems - that regions are important actors in the development process insofar as they can meet their own and national development goals by supporting innovation, contributing to an increase in productivity as well as...
This paper explores how distributed and relational forms of place-based leadership can be facilit... more This paper explores how distributed and relational forms of place-based leadership can be facilitated in environments with constrained local governance capabilities. It is based on an in-depth case study of a university-hosted collaborative platform situated in a city/regional institutional landscape marked by limited local devolution and public sector austerity. The research contributes to a fuller understanding of place-based leadership by analyzing how actors can mobilize interpretive and network forms of power outside formal governance structures to encourage long-term thinking and broker innovative cross-organizational projects. Equally, however, it highlights their continuing dependence on legitimating forms of local institutional and resource authority.
There is a growing academic and policy interest in the notion of using cities as ‘living laborato... more There is a growing academic and policy interest in the notion of using cities as ‘living laboratories’ to develop and test responses to the social, environmental and economic challenges present in contemporary urbanism. These living laboratories are often assumed to function through ‘quadruple helix’ relations between varied actors from the public, private, university and community sectors. However, empirical research that explores the real-world functioning of these arrangements is comparatively limited. This paper will help address this gap through the case of Newcastle City Futures (NCF) – a university-anchored platform for collaborative urban foresight research, public engagement and innovation. In particular, the paper will concentrate on a two-year period when NCF focused on the facilitation of innovation demonstrator projects guided by the vision of Newcastle upon Tyne developing a postindustrial future as a ‘test-bed city’. Detailed empirical accounts of the development of t...
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2021
The recent wave of populism has focused attention on ‘left behind’ places as hotspots of disconte... more The recent wave of populism has focused attention on ‘left behind’ places as hotspots of discontent. Seeking to remedy their neglect in urban and regional studies, the aim of this paper is to engage with the problems of ‘left behind’ places and to stimulate fresh thinking about alternative approaches. Reflecting the complex and inter-connected issues facing such places, it argues that a new conception is required to address issues of belonging and attachment. The paper outlines the basis of an expanded neo-endogenous development approach, identifying the foundational economy, income and livelihoods, social infrastructures and social innovation as key policy concerns.
Copyright: This is the authors ’ manuscript of a chapter published in its final form by Routledge... more Copyright: This is the authors ’ manuscript of a chapter published in its final form by Routledge, 2013. It is reproduced here with the publisher’s permission. More information is available at:
Executive summary The past 50 years have seen a massive expansion in higher education, especially... more Executive summary The past 50 years have seen a massive expansion in higher education, especially in middle income countries. There has also been significant growth in student mobility, though this tends to favour higher income countries who enjoy positive net flows at the expense of lower income ones. University missions evolve over time and in response to external demands. Recent decades have seen a transformation in the role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in regional development. There are mutual benefits – for example universities get access to new funding streams and regional partners get access to knowledge, innovation and technology. But effective regional partnerships require trust and can often be a time-consuming process. Relationships need to go beyond superficial displays of cooperation through, for example, the signing of high level agreements such as memoranda of understanding. The primary value of higher education to a region is through enhancing human capita...
By looking at the official data, it is impossible not to notice that Brazil has undergone profoun... more By looking at the official data, it is impossible not to notice that Brazil has undergone profound social and economic transformation. In fact, Brazil's GDP grew approximately 157 times since the early twentieth century to the present day, being this economic performance responsible for placing the country as an important player in South America and in the world as well. This deep transformation also affected the Brazilian higher education system, which has experienced considerable changes over the last decades, most of them driven by two interrelated factors: (a) an intense process of globalization that offers new opportunities as well as imposes new demands for universities; and (b) the perception ? largely influenced by the vast literature on Regional Innovation Systems - that regions are important actors in the development process insofar as they can meet their own and national development goals by supporting innovation, contributing to an increase in productivity as well as...
This paper explores how distributed and relational forms of place-based leadership can be facilit... more This paper explores how distributed and relational forms of place-based leadership can be facilitated in environments with constrained local governance capabilities. It is based on an in-depth case study of a university-hosted collaborative platform situated in a city/regional institutional landscape marked by limited local devolution and public sector austerity. The research contributes to a fuller understanding of place-based leadership by analyzing how actors can mobilize interpretive and network forms of power outside formal governance structures to encourage long-term thinking and broker innovative cross-organizational projects. Equally, however, it highlights their continuing dependence on legitimating forms of local institutional and resource authority.
There is a growing academic and policy interest in the notion of using cities as ‘living laborato... more There is a growing academic and policy interest in the notion of using cities as ‘living laboratories’ to develop and test responses to the social, environmental and economic challenges present in contemporary urbanism. These living laboratories are often assumed to function through ‘quadruple helix’ relations between varied actors from the public, private, university and community sectors. However, empirical research that explores the real-world functioning of these arrangements is comparatively limited. This paper will help address this gap through the case of Newcastle City Futures (NCF) – a university-anchored platform for collaborative urban foresight research, public engagement and innovation. In particular, the paper will concentrate on a two-year period when NCF focused on the facilitation of innovation demonstrator projects guided by the vision of Newcastle upon Tyne developing a postindustrial future as a ‘test-bed city’. Detailed empirical accounts of the development of t...
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2021
The recent wave of populism has focused attention on ‘left behind’ places as hotspots of disconte... more The recent wave of populism has focused attention on ‘left behind’ places as hotspots of discontent. Seeking to remedy their neglect in urban and regional studies, the aim of this paper is to engage with the problems of ‘left behind’ places and to stimulate fresh thinking about alternative approaches. Reflecting the complex and inter-connected issues facing such places, it argues that a new conception is required to address issues of belonging and attachment. The paper outlines the basis of an expanded neo-endogenous development approach, identifying the foundational economy, income and livelihoods, social infrastructures and social innovation as key policy concerns.
Copyright: This is the authors ’ manuscript of a chapter published in its final form by Routledge... more Copyright: This is the authors ’ manuscript of a chapter published in its final form by Routledge, 2013. It is reproduced here with the publisher’s permission. More information is available at:
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