Geographies of the University This open access volume raises awareness of the histories geographies and practices of universities and analyzes their role as key actors in today’s global knowledge economy. Universities are centers of research teaching and expertise with significant economic social and cultural impacts at different geographical scales. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries offer original analyses and discussions along five main themes: historical perspectives on the university as a site of knowledge production cultural encounter and political interest; institutional perspectives on university governance and the creation of innovative environments; relationships between universities and the city; the impact of universities on national and regional economies and cultures; and the processes of internationalization through student mobility the creation of education hubs and global regionalism in higher education Chapter 1: Geographies of the University. An Introduction (Peter Meusburger) Part 1: Historical Perspectives Chapter 2: The Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG) and the Geography of German Universities and Academics (1350 1550) (Rainer C. Schwinges) Chapter 3: Scientific and Cultural Relations between Heidelberg University and Hungary over Five Centuries (Peter Meusburger) Chapter 4: Catchment Areas and Killing Fields: Towards an Academic Geography of the Thirty Years War (Howard Hotson) Chapter 5: A Political Geography of University Foundation: The Case of the Danish Monarchy (Hanne Kirstine Adriansen) Chapter 6: ‘A Small Town of Character’: Locating a New Scottish University 1963 1965 (Michael Heffernan) Part II: Spaces and Governance of Knowledge Research and Education Chapter 7: Knowledge Environments at Universities. Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations (Peter Meusburger) Chapter 8: Quality Cultures in Higher Education Institutions. Development of the Quality Culture Inventory (Christine Sattler) Chapter 9: Agnotology: Ignorance and Absence or Towards a Sociology of Things that Aren’t There (Jennifer L. Croissant) part III: Universities and Regional Economies Chapter 10: The entrepreneurial university wave: shaping a triple helix for sustainable innovation (Henry Etzkowitz) Chapter 11: The Economic Impact of the Universities in the State of Baden Württemberg (Johannes Glückler) Chapter 12: African Universities as Employers of Returning Graduates from Germany. The Example of Ghana and Cameroon (Julia Boger) Part IV: Localization Globalization and Regional Integration of Universities Chapter 13: The University in its Place: Thinking in and Beyond Globalization (Allan Cochrane ) Chapter 14: The University Unbound: How Roots and Routes Intersect (Jane Kenway) Chapter 15: International Education Hubs (Jane Knight) Chapter 16: The Nonmetropolitan University’s Regional Engagement in the African Context: The Case of Cameroon (Eike W. Schamp) Chapter 17: China’s Southern Borderlands and ASEAN Higher education. A Cartography of Connectivity (Anthony Welch) Part V: Universities and the City Chapter 18: The Civic University and the City (John Goddard) Chapter 19: City and University Notes of an Architect On an Intriguing Spatial Relationship (Helmut Bott) Chapter 20: Campus city Relations: Past Present and Future (Alexandra Den Heijer) Chapter 21: Coevolution of Town and Gown: The Heidelberg International Building Exhibition in Search of a Knowledge based Urbanism for the Twenty first Century (Carl Zillich) The Klaus Tschira Foundation Index