Regional economics - an established discipline for several decades - has gone through a rapid pace of change in the past decade and several new perspectives have emerged. At the same time the methodology has shown surprising development. This volume brings together contributions looking at new...

Contents: Chapter 1: Mapping industrial and territorial dimensions for the design of place-based innovation policies: The rationale of the book / Roberta Capello, Alexander Kleibrink and Monika Matusiak -- Part 1: Understanding the economic fabric of territories -- Chapter 2: Establishing the...