Huggins, Robert; Johnston, Andrew - In: Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 27 (2009) 6, pp. 1088-1106
Universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs) have come to be regarded as key sources of knowledge … related to knowledge commercialisation capabilities. Weaker regions tend to be more dependent on their universities for income … regions. We argue that uncompetitive regions lack the additional knowledge infrastructure, besides universities, which is more …