Paul Benneworth is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands. Paul’s research focuses on the relationships between universities and society, the production of public value, and the problematics arising where different logics are confronted in different kinds of stakeholders interacting in knowledge creation processes. He is the co-editor and contributor to the recent volumes Making 21st century knowledge complexes: technopoles of the world 20 years after (Routledge, 2015), University engagement with socially excluded communities: towards the idea of 'the engaged university’ (Springer, 2013), and Universities and regional development: a critical assessment of tensions and challenges (Routledge, 2012). He was Project Leader of the European HERA ERA-net consortium ‘The public value of arts & humanities research’ (2010-2013).