Can Higher Education Institutions' Stakeholders Drive Regional Sustainable Development? Yes, They Can?!

Although Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) develop and announce actions related to sustainable development (SD), these actions and the results achieved are often not perceived by their stakeholders. This article aims to analyse how the SD of HEIs can contribute to better development and regional transformation, through the promotion of sustainable practices with effects on the regional environment. To do so, an exploratory quantitative analysis, with a sample of 1325 stakeholders collected from seven Portuguese public HEIs, using a multinomial logistic regression, was carried out.