"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. Since the first generation of RDAs were established in...

"This edited volume brings together a group of expert contributors to explore the opportunities and the challenges that Industry 4.0 (smart manufacturing) is likely to pose for regions, firms and jobs in Europe. Drawing on theory and empirical cases, it considers emerging issues like...

1. Urban Europe -- 2. European rurality in diversity -- 3. Changes in production systems and territorial development policies -- 4. Territorial integration of the European continent -- 5. European territorial perspectives.

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 Dahlstrom, Lise Smed Olsen and Henrik Halkier -- 3. Regional development agencies,...

pt. 1. Territorial challenges and the cognitive bounds of spatial planning in the enlarged European Union -- pt. 2. Engaging systems of multi-level governance -- pt. 3. Addressing increasing disparities and inequalities in the new regions of Europe -- pt. 4. Learning from experiences beyond the...