The study of universities' role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualization which embraces its underlying complexity and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities'...

Setting the scene : steps towards a geographical political economy -- Conceptualising economies and their geographies : spaces, flows and circuits -- "The learning economy, the learning firm and the learning region" : a sympathetic critique of the limits to learning -- From knowledge-based...

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. New challenges and new patterns of collaboration -- pt. 3. Europe's new regionalization : the integration of regional activities through macro-regions -- pt. 4. Europe's re-regionalization across borders -- pt. 5. Conclusions