TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose This paper aims to contribute to understanding regional competitiveness policy-making and the role academic organisations can play in that process. Competitiveness policies have evolved in the past decades from a single to a multiple-domain field, which has made the policy-making process more complex by adding more actors with their particular experience and view. This complexity, together with the relevance of overcoming traditional policy implementation failures, pleads for a new approach to competitiveness policy-making, in which academic organisations can act as “anchor institutions”. This framework is based on the adaptive implementation concept.Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the Basque case to analyse the role of universities in competitiveness policy-making and focuses on a specific academic organisation, which has contributed through different projects to regional policy-making. Evidences from those projects through different policy phases are included in the case.Findings The case shows how academic organisations might play a key role in fostering an adaptive implementation approach in competitiveness policy-making at the regional level and which specific characteristics these organisations should develop to fulfil this role.Originality/value This paper brings together two important issues for regional competitiveness: the importance of policy implementation and the particular role of engaged universities in such a process.
VL  - 30
IS  - 2
SN  - 1059-5422
DO  - 10.1108/CR-11-2018-0071
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/CR-11-2018-0071
AU  - Aranguren Mari Jose
AU  - Magro Edurne
PY  - 2020
Y1  - 2020/01/01
TI  - How can universities contribute to regional competitiveness policy-making?
T2  - Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 101
EP  - 117
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -