Chris Duke is Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow, and at RMIT University in Melbourne, and founding Secretary General of Pascal International Observatory

Michael Osborne is Professor of Adult and Lifelong Learning , Director of the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning, and Co-Director of PASCAL, University of Glasgow

Bruce Wilson is Professor and Director of the European Union Centre at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and a former Co-Director of Pascal International Observatory

Introduction – Regions and universities in the post-2008 world
Part 1 Towards mode two knowledge production
1. Complexity and diversity – the ‘global problematique’
2. Governance and the changing ‘three sectors’
3. Two key partners: (1) The region
Part 2 PURE findings: leading policy issues
4. Two key partners : (2) Higher Education
5. Pascal and the PURE project
6. Social inclusion and active citizenship
7. The new ecological imperative – green skills and jobs
8. Culture and creativity
9. Entrepreneurship and SMEs: regions and innovation systems
10. The audit era and organisational learning – benchmarking and impact
Part 3 Learning and partnership processes, wider policy reflections
11. The PURE project and inter-regional learning
12. Regions, central government power and policy-making
13. Engaging horizontally – leading, partnering, learning
14. Wider reflections: engaging with the new imperative
Annex: Twelve policy implications, twenty-one questions and answers
Bibliography
Index