Today many contributions are dedicated to the role of industrial districts, clusters and other such networks in local economic development, or to local innovation dynamics (innovative milieus, technopoles, regional innovation systems, learning regions and so on). In our opinion, the crucial...

The articles included in this collection have originated from a workshop held in Annecy (France) in 2006 to discuss recent developments in the study of territorial dynamics. This special issue does not offer a comprehensive coverage of all the issues of territorial dynamics but the selected...

This compact and authoritative book brings together the topical themes of networks and governance to advance understanding of the determinants of local economic development in the context of increasingly global relationships.