"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...

Localized creativity, small high-tech entrepreneurship, related innovation platforms, social capital embedded in dynamically open territorial communities and context-specific though continuously upgrading policy platforms are all means to face new challenges and to promote increased absorptive...

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,...