Higher Education Institutions - Region collaboration: How HEIs and local and reginal actors 'learn' to interact and collaborate effectively in knowledge based problem-solving activities - a cross-country analysis of European Case Studies.

The HE-RO project aims at shedding light on how institutional and
organisational changes contribute to establishing non-commercial problem-solving HEI-region interaction as legitimate and / or taken-for-granted activities, and how the underlying learning processes take place. This research task will be investigated in three well selected European regions (Mönchengladbach [Germany], Linz [Austria], Adelstat [Sweden] or Newcastle [Great Britain]). Cross-country analyses will enable the generation of high quality and, to a certain extent, generalizable results that will constitute a valuable and novel contribution to a persistent research gap – the ‘black-box’ – of how HEIs become involved in regional governance and regional problem-solving.