This paper discusses the ways that European regional policy has been re-shaped in order to
build on the role played by entrepreneurship in driving regional innovation. The various …

The orientation towards grand societal challenges can be seen as a new wave or paradigm
for innovation policy. Such policy aims at system-wide transformation and is often referred to …

This book offers insights into the process and the practice of local economic development.
Bridging the gap between theory and practice it demonstrates the relevance of theory to …

Universities are widely recognized as a critical source of technological innovation and are
heralded for the entrepreneurial ventures cultivated within their walls. To date, most …

THIS chapter investigates the main features of local policies for highgrowth entrepreneurial
firms. 1 Even though the focus is narrow in the sense that a specific type of entrepreneurship …

This report investigates the main features of local policies for high-employment growth
enterprises, the rationales, success factors, obstacles and responses, and the impact of …

Government‐driven industrial clusters have attracted considerable attention from academic
research as well as practical fields, mainly because of their contributions to regional …

The aim of the article is to evaluate the significance of the European Union funds supporting
the cohesion policy, which the Eastern Polish local governments benefit from in order to …

In recent years, several initiatives have been taken by governments to support investments
in small and medium-sized enterprises. The aim is to foster their access to finance, and thus …

This orientation towards grand societal challenges can be seen as a new wave or paradigm
for innovation policy. Such policy is geared to the achievement of systems wide …