Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?

Autorentext

Nicola Bellini is Professor of Management at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.

Mike Danson is Professor of Scottish and Regional Economics at the University of the West of Scotland, UK.

Henrik Halkier is Professor of Regional and Tourism Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Klappentext

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, comparative research, and systematic use of critical case studies, this book provides a new point of reference by identifying key features of the current, and, indeed next, generation of regionally-based economic development organisations.

Inhalt

1. Regional Development Agencies: A generational story Nicola Bellini, Mike Danson and Henrik Halkier
   2. Multi-actor and Multi-scalar Regional Development Policies in the Knowledge Economy Margareta Dahlström, Lise Smed Olsen and Henrik Halkier
      3. Regional Development Agencies, Regional Policy, and Knowledge Dynamics: Surveying patterns and trends in Europe Henrik Halkier
         4. The Regional Innovation Agencies in Europe: A comparative analysis Francesco Prota, Annamaria Fiore and Maria Jennifer Grisorio
            5. The Potential Role of Regional Development Agencies in Achieving the Priorities of Europe 2020 in the Context of the Financial Crisis Leslie Budd
               6. Regional Development Agencies and Changing Social Fields: Towards a sociology of regional systems of innovation Borut Ronevi
                  7. Governing Uneven Development: The politics of local and regional development in England Andy Pike, John Tomaney, Mike Coombes and Anja McCarthy
                     8. Analysing Regional Development through a Governance-Partnership Continuum: The case of Denmark Peter Wilgaard Larsen
                        9. Sub-regional Development Agencies: The Finnish experience Jukka Teräs and Ari Alatossava
                           10. For All Regions, Regional Development Agencies: The history and next generation of RDAs in Canada Heather M. Hall
                               11. Network Regionalism, Development Agencies and Peripheralisation Through 'Loss of Voice': Moving towards post-regionalism? Tassilo Herrschel
                                   12. Aims, Functions and Structures of European Investment Promotion Agencies: A comparative analysis Francesca S. Rota and Carlo Salone
                                       13. Smart RDAs in Europe: Advanced practices Philip Cooke and Julie Porter
                                           14. The Evolution of Local Development Agencies from Service Providers to Facilitators in Knowledge Networks in the Basque Country: The role of academic expertise in the change process Miren Estensoro and Miren Larrea
                                               15. Regional Development Agencies in Austria: Institutional settings and evolutionary development Michael Steiner and Matthias Schelnast
                                                   16. The Uneasy Future of Italian RDAs: The good, the bad and the ugly Alberto Bramanti and Paolo Rosso
                                                       17. Swedish Regions: Networking, knowledge and regional change Monica Johansson and David Rylander
                                                           18. RDA Futures Nicola Bellini, Mike Danson and Henrik Halkier