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Review of Regional Research
Published in: Review of Regional Research 2/2017

04-10-2017 | Introduction

Universities and sustainable regional development: introduction to the special issue

Authors: Lorenz Blume, Thomas Brenner, Guido Buenstorf

Published in: Review of Regional Research | Issue 2/2017

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Universities matter to the development of their host regions. This insight is anything but new, as countless studies demonstrate the positive impact of universities on their regional environment. To some extent this is hardly surprising. For centuries governments all over Europe, and also in other parts of the world, have funded existing universities and initiated the establishment of new ones. This support was often linked to useful university outputs. For instance, educating civil servants constituted one of the earliest tasks of European universities, and 19th century technical universities were primarily established to safeguard the supply of human capital for the emerging science-based industries (Hüther and Krücken 2016). …
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Metadata
Title
Universities and sustainable regional development: introduction to the special issue
Authors
Lorenz Blume
Thomas Brenner
Guido Buenstorf
Publication date
04-10-2017
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Review of Regional Research / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 0173-7600
Electronic ISSN: 1613-9836
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10037-017-0120-0

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