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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2008 1(2):233-245; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsn006
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This article appears in the following Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society issue: Knowledge Networks and Innovation [View the issue table of contents]

The contribution of universities to innovation and economic development: in what sense a regional problem?

Dominic Power and Anders Malmberg

Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail: dominic.power{at}kultgeog.uu.se: anders.malmberg{at}kultgeog.uu.se


  Abstract

To explore the contradictions and problems apparent in contemporary policy towards universities, this article reviews two parallel but related debates: the debate about competitive and prosperous regions and the debate about excellent institutions of research and higher education. It questions whether it is necessary, or always healthy, to conflate the processes behind excellence in regional innovation and economic development with excellence in university research, education and collaboration. In other words, while we agree that universities contribute to innovation, it is less clear how they contribute to regional innovation and still less clear how they contribute to regional innovation systems.

Keywords: economic geography, regional innovation systems, university, science and technology policy, regional economic development

Received on September 5, 2007. Accepted on February 7, 2008.

JEL classification: O1, O3, R1, R5


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