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 importance of health research utilisation in policy-making, and of understanding the
mechanisms involved, is increasingly recognised. Recent reports calling for more resources …

This is an open access book. This book offers the first overview of the 'wicked problems'
literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the …

There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public
policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the …

Evidence-based policymaking (EBP) contends that policy decisions are successful when
informed by evidence. However, where policy problems are “wicked”(systemic, ambiguous …

Complex systems approaches to social intervention research are increasingly advocated.
However, there have been few attempts to consider how models of intervention science …

Chapter 1 discussed the ways that reviews examine previous research and other forms of
evidence to answer review questions and how their methods depend upon the questions …

Although policy capacity is among the most fundamental concepts in public policy, there is
considerable disagreement over its definition and very few systematic efforts try to …

We aimed to evaluate the impact of sustainable tourism indicators on destination
competitiveness with reference to the European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS), a scheme …

What are the characteristics of a school as learning organisation? This paper should be
seen as an attempt to work towards a common understanding of the school as learning …