Universities can link important second-tier cities that are often growing faster and are more innovative

Universities can link important second-tier cities that are often growing faster and are more innovative
Cities are constantly in states of flow, and can easily be locked into patterns of behaviour that over time can have serious consequences
Universities are brokers and coordinators and ideas machines and leaders at a time when decision making is becoming more local
With the continued ‘rebalancing’ away from the coastal cities to the inland provinces, we will see investment in inland universities