This paper explores the regional innovation paradox and its policy implications. The regional innovation paradox refers to the apparent contradiction between the comparatively greater need to spend on innovation in lagging regions and their relatively lower capacity to absorb public funds...

Smart specialisation signals a new era of regional innovation policy in the EU and constitutes a major challenge to regions, member states and the European Commission. This article explores the challenge in the context of a critical review of regional innovation policy repertoires in the Basque...

One of the unintended consequences of devolution under New Labour is that it might make it more difficult to secure territorial justice between the nations and regions of the United Kingdom. Centralized regional policy, the aim of which was to promote economic equity between the regions, has...

This article seeks, first, to respond to some of the more pertinent points raised in the 'new regionalism' debate, like how 'regions' are constituted and how the 'regional scale' relates to other scales in what I call the 'multi-level polity' in the European Union. Second, it explores the...

Philip Cooke and Kevin Morgan explore important issues of corporate reorganization in the context of heightened global competition. Their special focus is upon how firms associate with regional milieux. Innovation is a key factor in corporate and regional economic performance and the authors...

Morgan K. (2007) The polycentric state: new spaces of empowerment and engagement?, Regional Studies 41, 1237-1251. New Labour claims to have radically reformed territorial governance structures in the UK by devolving political power to the Celtic nations and London, begetting the most enduring...

Morgan K. Greening the realm: sustainable food chains and the public plate, Regional Studies. Public procurement is one of the most powerful, yet paradoxical, functions of the state in Britain: powerful, because it deploys a purchasing budget of £150 billion per annum; paradoxical, because its...