This paper offers a concise and selective overview of regional development theories. Starting from traditional regional growth theory, it introduces next findings from location and agglomeration theory, including infrastructure and network modeling. Next, innovation, entrepreneurship and...

The future of Europe’s rural peripheries as well as the future of rural societies is an important development and planning issue in the EU. Several typologies of rural areas and different rural indicators have been developed by researchers and international organizations such as OECD and EU to...

The creative industry has in recent years drawn much attention from the side of both scientists and policy-makers in the area of urban planning and industrial policy. The question is however, whether the assumed innovative and successful potential offered by firms in the creative industry is...