TY - JOUR
T1 - The college chase
T2 - Higher education and urban entrepreneuralism in Israel
AU - Rosen, Gillad
AU - Razin, Eran
PY - 2007/2
Y1 - 2007/2
N2 - Local government initiative to attract colleges, in spite of being formally excluded from the higher education system, is shown to represent urban entrepreneurialism, in which strategies undertaken - reactive or proactive, competition or co-operation, and means of support - are influenced by location. However, such decentralised forms of local governance do not indicate a diminishing role of the central state, but rather reshape regulation - decisions reflecting greater pluralism, becoming more exposed to external pressures for market-oriented initiatives in high demand locations, and for publicly supported colleges in less attractive locations. Local entrepreneurialism is particularly influential at the intra-regional level, but saturation could emphasise the need to move from local entrepreneurialism to competitive regionalism.
AB - Local government initiative to attract colleges, in spite of being formally excluded from the higher education system, is shown to represent urban entrepreneurialism, in which strategies undertaken - reactive or proactive, competition or co-operation, and means of support - are influenced by location. However, such decentralised forms of local governance do not indicate a diminishing role of the central state, but rather reshape regulation - decisions reflecting greater pluralism, becoming more exposed to external pressures for market-oriented initiatives in high demand locations, and for publicly supported colleges in less attractive locations. Local entrepreneurialism is particularly influential at the intra-regional level, but saturation could emphasise the need to move from local entrepreneurialism to competitive regionalism.
KW - Decentralisation
KW - Higher education
KW - Israel
KW - Urban entrepreneurialism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33846664252&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2007.00378.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2007.00378.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33846664252
SN - 0040-747X
VL - 98
SP - 86
EP - 101
JO - Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
JF - Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
IS - 1
ER -