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List of contents
Foreword by Arne Isaksen Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Unveiling the Potential of Less Favoured Regions in Regional Policy Iryna Kristensen, Alexandre Dubois, Jukka Teräs Part 1 Shifting perspectives: reframing regional innovation in less-favoured regions 2. Fostering Growth in Less Favoured Regions: Adapting the Concept of Smart Specialization to Rural Economic Development David Freshwater 3. Smart Specialisation in Economically and Institutionally Less Favoured Regions Henning Kroll 4. Development of mountainous regions: smart specialization approaches as a means to overcoming peripheralization Thomas Dax Part 2 Smart Specialization in practice: territorial challenges and opportunities 5. Smart specialisation at the edge of Europe: Case study of sparsely populated regions in the Arctic Jukka Teräs, Kristiina Jokelainen, Thomas Ejdemo, Daniel Örtqvist 6. The wisdom of the fathers? Regional Development Policy and Structures for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (1965-2015) through the lens of Smart Specialisation Andrew Copus 7. The role of biorefineries in the revitalization of (old) industrial rural regions Alexandre Dubois and Iryna Kristensen 8. Models of institutional governance for smart specialization in old industrial urban regions Jaime del Castillo and Jonatan Paton 9. Digital Innovation Hubs as enablers of Smart Specialisation in Sparsely Populated Regions Jens Sörvik Part 3 Operationalising smart diversification 10. Diversification patterns at the regional level and their relationship to regional knowledge capabilities: differences between advanced and less favoured regions Andreas Reinstaller and Fabian Unterlass 11. The Role of Proximity in peripheral regions: smart experimentation between Triple Helix Actors Antti Mäenpää and Seija Virkkala 12. Relatedness, diversification and economic performance at the regional level: differences between advantaged and less favoured regions Johanna Vogel and Stefan Weingärtner 13. Regional structural policies and industrial evolution: evidence from three European case study regions Klaus S. Friesenbichler 14. A Concluding Note: Future prospects of entrepreneurship and innovation policy Håkan Ylinenpää, Iryna Kristensen, Alexandre Dubois, Jukka Teräs
About the author
Iryna Kristensen is Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Centre of Spatial Development (Nordregio) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Alexandre Dubois is a researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden.
Jukka Teräs is Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Centre of Spatial Development (Nordregio) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Summary
The existence and persistence of regional disparities between European regions require context-tailored policies to promote structural change. This book explores the congruence between place-based development and regional competitiveness in the EU context.
