The financial crisis encourages governments to identify innovation programmes that had proven successful in contributing to regional resilience. In this context, the federal programme <italic>Innovative, Regional Growth Core</italic> (<italic>Innovative Regional Growth Core</italic>, <italic>IRGC</italic>) developed under the umbrella of the...</italic>

Norrköping, a small urban area formerly dependent upon old labour-intensive industries, has developed a knowledge-based renewal strategy inspired by ideas emanating from its superseded local economy. Using a longitudinal case study, this paper explicates the dynamics of change among a triple...

The causes and cures of the contemporary economic crisis have been a matter of intense debate since 2007--2008, but the persisting signs of decline in virtually all economic sectors question the effectiveness of the measures adopted so far. Stimulus packages have been the most common policy tool...

This paper provides insights into a science-based strategy aimed to address the Great Depression of the 1930s and examines its relevance to policies addressing the contemporary economic crisis. This early science-based strategy was not accepted at the national level at the time, but was enacted...

A new model of knowledge-based regional economic development was invented in Boston during the 1930s and subsequently transferred to northern California where it also had independent roots. Drawing upon academic, business and government resources and configuring them in new formats created new...