The Role of Universities in Regional Innovation Ecosystems

This report looks at how universities work in their regional environment, revealing the mechanisms that universities and their partners use to promote innovation. Universities have been instrumental in regenerating their regions in the aftermath of the financial crisis, moving beyond transferring technologies and towards the co-creation of knowledge and driving strategic development. The report provides a look into a world of innovation in which the coordination and orchestration of knowledge creation are at the centre of a dialogue that stretches from the students all the way to the management of global companies - looking at the interaction between universities and innovation clusters as well.