Regional Development

_x005F_x000D_ Reanimating Regions marks the continued reinvigoration of a set of disciplinary debates surrounding regions, the regional, and regional geography. Across 18 chapters from international, interdisciplinary scholars, this book writes and performs region as a temporary permanence, somethin..

This book brings together experiences of Regional and Development Agencies throughout Europe to provide material for the first major comparative study of bottom-up regional policy across the continent...

This book brings together experiences of Regional and Development Agencies throughout Europe to provide material for the first major comparative study of bottom-up regional policy across the continent...

Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys,..

In Australia, regions are not just a geographic category, they are also cultural. Being regional means being located outside the nation’s capital cities and in the periphery of centres of power and influence. It is thus significantly different than its European or American counterparts. However, sur..

In Australia, regions are not just a geographic category, they are also cultural. Being regional means being located outside the nation’s capital cities and in the periphery of centres of power and influence. It is thus significantly different than its European or American counterparts. However, sur..

This book draws on work from across northern Europe and is parallel and complementary to the network itself. By establishing an intellectual and practically orientated framework and platform, and by bringing together contributions defining the state-of-the-art and potential development paths in the ..

This book documents the changing nature and challenge of regional development in Britain and Ireland in the final decade of this century...

This textbook provides a conceptual, theoretical and empirical analysis of regional development strategies within a European context...

The last twenty years have seen an increase in European integration and the emergence of the technological revolution. Although tighter integration coupled with technological innovation should facilitate cross-regional convergence, some European regions have managed to jump ahead while others have b..

As regional inequality looms large in the policy debate in China, this volume brings together a selection of papers from authors whose work has had real impact on policy, so that researchers and policy makers can have access to them in one place._x000D_..

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the new wave of innovation-oriented regional policies. It draws conclusions from the European Regional Technology Plans and Regional Innovation Strategies...