Increasing attention has been given to the role of leadership as an important determinant of
growth at the regional or local scale (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …

The orientation towards grand societal challenges can be seen as a new wave or paradigm
for innovation policy. Such policy aims at system-wide transformation and is often referred to …

The extent to which structures and preconditions stimulate or hinder regional development is
of interest in economic geography, as is the renewal of 'left-behind'peripheral regions …

This paper examines the leadership of places–cities, regions, communities–in Australia,
Finland, Germany, Italy, the United States and the United Kingdom and explores the …

Governance, agency and place leadership: lessons from a cross-national analysis. Regional
Studies. This paper argues that few accounts of place leadership have found an appropriate …

Regional development is not a dinner party, but rather a largely contested matter in which its
political dimension and power relations play key roles. This paper calls for a research …

The recent debate on innovation-based structural change in Evolutionary Economic
Geography is characterised by a strong focus on the rise of new industrial paths. This paper …

This paper examines factors sha** the reconfiguration capacity of regional innovation
systems (RISs).'System selectivity'is introduced as a concept to understand how factors such …

We investigate conceptually the institutional change process and innovation underpinning
knowledge-based regional development from the point of view of institutional …

The 21st century has been dominated by an almost compulsive race to find new pathways
for city development. As cities seek to regenerate via the knowledge-based economy, now …