As a growing backlash against globalisation gathers momentum, internationally oriented public universities face a period of great unrest. In particular, they find themselves caught between the narrowing local agendas of their public funders and the global outlook of their researchers and students. We suggest that an economic geography lens provides a powerful perspective for how universities might navigate these tensions. Specifically, we show how local-global tensions can be managed through strategies engaged at the city and regional level. Our contribution seeks to inform current debates in the higher education sector and bring economic geography more centrally into public discourse on this topic.

随着对全球化日益强烈的反抗势头的增强，面向国际的公立大学面临着巨大的动荡时期。特别是，他们发现自己陷入了公共资助者范围缩小的地方议程与研究人员和学生的全球视野之间。我们建议，经济地理学的视角为大学如何应对这些紧张局势提供强有力的视角。具体而言，我们展示了如何通过在城市和地区层面采取的策略来解决局部全球紧张局势。我们的贡献旨在为当前高等教育领域的辩论提供信息，并将经济地理学更集中地纳入有关此主题的公共讨论中。