This paper compares and contrasts three disruptive models of potential and actual new kinds of spatial planning. These include “seasteading”, “smart neighbourhoods” and “renewable spatial systems”. Each is labelled with distinctive discursive titles, respectively: “Attention...

1. Introduction : co-evolution, complexity and emergence in regional innovation systems -- 2. What went wrong with the vertical process and policy-perspective? -- 3. What is transversality? -- 4. The co-evolutionary origins of transversality -- 5. Transversality and transition in innovation and...

The first edition of Regional Innovation Systems introduced a newly developed theoretical and empirical construct as a means of planning and analysing industrial development on a regional scale. Since 1995, when the first edition was commissioned, there has been a worldwide innovation-led boom...