In recent years, there has been rapidly growing interest in Innovation Districts (ID) in urban
policy and practice. IDs are touted as catalysts for innovation and economic development …

At the intersection of regional and innovation studies, trademark research is producing
stylized facts, methodological lessons and policy insights underlining the importance of …

The regional innovation system (RIS) approach has become a widely used framework for
examining the dynamics of innovation across space and for crafting policies to promote the …

This editorial seeks to contribute to a critical rethinking of the regional innovation system
(RIS) framework and to examine what kind of 'reinvention'of regional innovation policy is …

Recent thinking about innovation and industrial policy emphasises purposeful related
diversification strategies or more transformative—but potentially riskier—challenge …

Public procurement has struggled to fulfill its mission to create public value due to a narrow
interpretation of value emphasizing the costs of procured goods and services. A holistic view …

Grand societal challenges as a policy target have received increasing attention in regional
innovation policy. To date, concrete governance strategies to address such challenges with …

Theory development on the geographies of innovation has been very successful in
incorporating the changing patterns of knowledge dynamics due to globalization, lifting the …

Although the future is an increasingly important topic for regional economic development,
our knowledge of the future as a research subject has been limited. Following futures …

While national governments are the main actors in innovation policy, we witness a
proliferation of challenge-oriented innovation policies both at the subnational and the …