The role of universities in fostering regional agglomeration in an Australian context is explored.Universities initiate and drive such clustering and networking through knowledge capitalization projects.For this study, the universities’ roles were classified as generative or developmenta, and...

The role of universities in regional innovation has evolved over the last 20 years. This evolution has seen the emergence of a third role of universities that has re-shaped and transformed their two traditional functions of teaching and research. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for...

Gunasekara C. (2006) Universities and associative regional governance: Australian evidence in non-core metropolitan regions, Regional Studies 40, 727-741. Associative governance refers to a networked approach to governance that is based on mutual trust, collaboration, devolution of power and...

Although it is now well recognised that universities perform an important role in knowledge creation and diffusion in regions, the extent of regional research collaboration is limited. This article analyses the local collaborative research performance of three Australian regional universities...

Although it is now well recognised that universities perform an important role in knowledge creation and diffusion in regions, the extent of regional research collaboration is limited. This article analyses the local collaborative research performance of three Australian regional universities...

This paper explores the state of the literature on the role that universities perform in the development of regional innovation systems. The predominant focus in the literature has been on institutional analysis of university-industry technology transfer. This is important but tends to...